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B. Focus of the Study
Based on the background above, the writer focuses on the child connotative meaning in five lyrics of songs: when the children cry by white lion,
sleeping child by Michel learn to rock, war child by cranberries, Leningrad by Billy Joe and Russian by Bob Dylan.
C. Research Question
Due to the focus of the study above, the research question is formulated as follow:
What are the connotative meanings of the child words from the five analyzed lyrics?
D. Significance of the Research
The writer hopes that the research can give a new experience and knowledge about literature to the writer especially, and the reader generally. The
writer hopes that this research can be a valuable contribution for culture and language studies in State Islamic University UIN Syarief Hidayatullah Jakarta.
Then, the writer hopes that the research will enlarge our knowledge about symbol and theme in lyric of song and that the research can be one of literature references
for the reader.
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E. Research Methodology
1. Objective of the Research To know the connotative meaning of word child in the five lyrics of songs:
when the children cry by White Lion, War Child by cranberries, Sleeping Child
by Michael Learn to Rock, Russian by Bob Dylan, Leningrad by Billy Joe.
2. Method of Research This research is a descriptive analysis research that describes about child
connotative meaning on the five lyrics of songs: when the children cry by white lion, sleeping child by Michael learn to rock, war child by cranberries, hard rain
gonna fall by bob Dylan and Leningrad by Billy Joe. The analysis includes explicating which contain explanation of the entire
lyrics in detail. From analysis, the writer tries to conclude connotative meaning of each lyric
3. Unit of Analysis Unit of analysis in this research is five lyrics of songs: when the children
cry by White Lion and Sleeping child by Michael Learn to Rock, War child by Cranberries, Russian by Bob Dylan and Leningrad by Billy Joe.
4. Data Analysis Technique To find the goal of the research, the writer reads the lyrics accurately, and
analyzes the intrinsic such style of language, symbol and theme in each lyric. After the data is completed, the writer tries to analyze the connotative meaning of
the words child in those five lyrics based on critical study and qualitative data. So, the data will be analyzed through “descriptive analysis technique”.
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5. Research Instrument In this qualitative research, the writer makes himself a subject of the
research in order to find every data he needs.
CHAPTER II
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Explanation of Lyric
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