Method of the Study

6 The second research is conducted by Sakadolkis 2003. He focuses on the use of figurative language in construction of musical meaning. The study case of the research is conducted on children who are in sixth grade general music classes. The class will be taught by the teacher by listening to the music and then the students and the teacher will describe the music. They listen to the music in the classroom with an audio tape recorder in the seven-week period. The example of analysis is conducted by Sakadolkis when the class is listening to the music Tzena Tzena. After that, he finds the conversation between the teacher and the student as follows: Teacher: If you were dancing, get a sense of whether this music wants you to be into the floor or off the floor. Student: I think it wants you to be off the floor, like jumpy kind of. From the example of conversation, it can be seen that there is figurative language, which is personification in the word of music . Music wants you to be indicates that the music also has a craving like a human. He does not only apply the theory of figurative language, but he also combines it with the theory of linguistic cognitive. The result, figurative language is regarded as a fundamental mode of cognition, it is reflected not only in language, but also in thought and action. By studying figurative language, people can gain an understanding of how meaning is formed. This proved that the figurative language is important to form the musical meaning and it emphasizes the thinking and practice. 7 The mostly figurative language appears in his research are personification and metaphor. The last research is conducted by Perez 2012. He analyzes the figurative language in social media text. The aim of his research is to show how a particular domain of figurative language: humor and irony can be handled automatically by considering the linguistic rules. The main objective of the research is to identify figurative language, especially irony and humor found in social media. The data analyzed is the text of social media web comments, tweets, and user reviews by selecting the characteristics of the text that has a funny aspect. An example of the data being analyzed is the irony: “Sitting in the eye doctor’s office, wait for the doctor to see me” The researcher analyzes the data by using figurative language theory and he combines with the theory of syntactic structure and semantics conceptualization. The result is the language reflects the patterns of thought and figurative language are assumed to communicate something indirectly. It is also found in the text where the social media which often contain irony and humor. The three researchers above describe the differences of discussion with the researcher’s research study. In the first research, it discusses the use of figurative language contains in press advertising, while the second research discusses the figurative language in the creation of musical meaning and the third research has explained how the use of figurative language in the text of social media. The