A Semantic Analysis Of Phrasal Verbs Found In Fall Out Boy’s Selected Songs
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Study
Semantic is the branch of linguistics that concerned with how meaning
expressed in language. Semantic is the study of meaning. Sudaryat (2009:21) says
that break down “meaning” in its wides sense into several types, giving primary
importance to direct meaning as conceptual meaning. Other meaning are connotative
meaning, affective meaning, stylistic meaning, reflected meaning, collocative
meaning, idiomatic meaning, grammatical meaning, thematic meaning. The basic
point that sudaryat want to convey is that understanding the language means
understanding the meaning. In doing communication with other, wheter by using
written or spoken language, people surely have message to be convoyed, the message
are meaningful because they really have meaning. as he states on his book (2009:3)
“sebagai istilah, kata semantik digunakan untuk bidang linguistik yang mempelajari
hubungan antara tanda-tanda atau lambang-lambang dengan hal yang ditandai
disebut makna atau arti”. (As the term, word semantics is used for the field of
linguistics which studies the relationship between signs or symbols with a thing
called of meaning.)
Grammar is a field of linguistics that involves all the various things that make
up the rules of language. Grammar is also used as a term to refer to the prescriptive
rules of a given language, which may change over time and the various theories or
perspective that attempt to understand it. A grammar of a language describes the
principles or rules governing the form and meaning of words, phrases, clauses, and
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sentences. Wren and Martin (1990:3) say that words are divided into different kinds
of classes, also known as part of speech, according to their usage to the work they do
in sentence.
Verb is one of parts of speech. Grammar has been taken an important part of
how to write or speak something. One of grammar’s studies is Verb. However, there
are many different kinds of verbs, including lexical auxuliary verbs, different
semantic classes, single-word verb, and multi-word verb. (Biber, Conrad, and Leech
2002:103). Multi-word verb, fall into: Phrasal verbs, Prepositional verbs, Phrasalprepositional verbs.
Phrasal verbs consist of a verb followed by an adverbial particle (for examples:
carry out, find out, or pick up). When these adverbial particles are independently, they
have literal meanings signifying location or direction (for examples: out, up, down, over,
around, off). However, in phrasal verbs they are commonly used with less literal
meanings. For example, the meaning of find out does not include the “place” meaning of
out. Phrasal Verbs are combinations of verb plus particles that regularly occur
together. They usually have a meaning of their own different from that of either of
the component parts. They are essentially new verbs (Wishon and Burks, 1980:319).
The new unit is different from the two separate words. It means that a verb plus
particle (preposition, adverb) can change the meaning of the verb completely and
create a new verb. Phrasal verbs are often used in speaking and writing in English.
It relates to studying the phrasal verbs because the writer tries to find meaning of
words and phrase. The writer needs to study about grammar to make the writer easier
to understand the phrasal verb in words. In phrasal verb, their meaning cannot be
predicted from the form of each individual word. One part of multi-word verbs is
phrasal verb.
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Wren and Martin (1990:3) say: “words are divided into different kinds of
classes, also known as part of speech, according to their usage to the work they do in
sentence”. There are three kinds of verbs; they are lexical verb, auxiliary verb and
primary verb. From these three kinds of verbs, lexical verbs are the most common
and often occur as multi-word units. These combinations usually have idiomatic
meaning.
Phrasal verbs are so common in everyday conversation and writing. Human
communicate to each other use language. Language is a media of communication.
Crystal (1974:3) says that language is most frequently used and most highly
developed form of human communication. In the way of communication maybe
many people don’t realize that they use phrasal verb in all conversation to another
people. We can find many phrasal verbs in all English text books especially in
magazine, Novel, newspaper or in an article. But sometimes people don’t recognize
them as phrasal verbs. Phrasal verbs are verbs that consist of a verb and a particle (a
preposition or adverb) or a verb and two particles. For example: Laina asked Zon out
to dinner and a movie. Ask out is one of phrasal verbs. The meaning of the world is
invite on a date. It is important to understand phrasal verb because people cannot
predict from the verb or the particle, people need to get new meaning of the phrasal
verb. It is important to understand about phrasal verbs. Because when people study
about phrasal verbs without realizing people know about new words. It will enrich
the vocabularies of the learner. Olteanu (2012:7) states that along the years, phrasal
verbs have been much studied since the 16th century until now. It also denotes that
phrasal verbs are considered to be a very important and frequently occurring feature
of the English language.
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Fall Out Boy is an American rock band formed in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb
of Chicago in 2001. The band consists of vocalist / guitarist Patrick Stump,
bassist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley. The band
originated from Chicago's hardcore punk scene, with which Wentz was heavily
involved. The group was formed by Wentz and Trohman as a pop punk side project
of their respective hardcore bands, and Stump joined shortly thereafter. The group
went through a succession of drummers before landing Hurley and recording their
debut album, Take This to Your Grave (2003), which sold well for independent
label Fueled by Ramen. The band's 2005 major-label breakthrough, From Under the
Cork Tree, produced two hit singles, "Sugar, We're Goin Down" and "Dance,
Dance", and went double platinum, transforming the group into superstars and
making Wentz a celebrity and tabloid fixture. Their 2007 follow-up, Infinity on High,
landed at number one on the Billboard 200, and produced several hit singles, "This
Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" and "Thnks fr th Mmrs". Folie à Deux, the band's
fourth album, created a mixed response from fans and commercially undersold
expectations. The band took a hiatus from 2009 to 2012 to "decompress", exploring
various side projects. They regrouped and recorded Save Rock and Roll (2013),
which gave the band their second career number one and produced the top 20 single
"My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up).
Fall Out Boy is one of American popular rock band that can influence the
writer to analyze their songs, because there are so many variation of meanings in
their lyrics. In this thesis, the analysis has been focused on their lyrics with Phrasal
verbs to find out the semantic meanings. With Phrasal Verbs, the enhancement of
meanings of the lyrics can be created and understand what lyrics mean. The semantic
analysis can ease the listeners to understand the deep meaning of the lyrics.
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In this thesis, the writer focuses on some phrasal verbs in Fall Out Boy’s
selected songs, which found in their lyrics. It is easy to analyze and understand the
phrasal verbs, because many lyrics contains of phrasal verb. Learning about phrasal
verbs in lyrics, can enrich our vocabularies; however phrasal verbs make the writer
easier to find the meaning from the difficult word. So in this case, people should not
only enjoy the songs, but also understand the real meaning of that through learning
the phrasal verb.
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1.2. Problem of the Study
1. What types and patterns of phrasal verbs are found in Fall Out Boy’s Selected
Songs?
2. What are the semantic meaning of the phrasal verbs found in Fall Out Boy’s
Selected Songs?
1.3. Object of the Study
1. To identify the types and patterns of phrasal verbs found in Fall Out Boy’s
Selected Songs
2. To identify the semantic meaning of phrasal verbs found in Fall Out Boy’s
Selected Songs.
1.4. Scope of the Study
In this thesis, the analysis of Phrasal Verbs found in Fall Out Boy’s Selected
Song is focused on the types and patterns Phrasal Verbs in Fall Out Boy’s Selected
Songs. In addition to usage types and patterns this analysis also deals with the
semantic meaning of phrasal verbs.
1.5. Significance of the Study
Practically, this thesis can achieve some significance for the readers as
follows:
1. To help the reader to get clear information about the meaning and the types of
Phrasal Verbs in Fall Out Boy’s Selected Songs.
2. This thesis can be used as a reference for the student of English Literature in
the discussion of Phrasal Verbs.
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INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Study
Semantic is the branch of linguistics that concerned with how meaning
expressed in language. Semantic is the study of meaning. Sudaryat (2009:21) says
that break down “meaning” in its wides sense into several types, giving primary
importance to direct meaning as conceptual meaning. Other meaning are connotative
meaning, affective meaning, stylistic meaning, reflected meaning, collocative
meaning, idiomatic meaning, grammatical meaning, thematic meaning. The basic
point that sudaryat want to convey is that understanding the language means
understanding the meaning. In doing communication with other, wheter by using
written or spoken language, people surely have message to be convoyed, the message
are meaningful because they really have meaning. as he states on his book (2009:3)
“sebagai istilah, kata semantik digunakan untuk bidang linguistik yang mempelajari
hubungan antara tanda-tanda atau lambang-lambang dengan hal yang ditandai
disebut makna atau arti”. (As the term, word semantics is used for the field of
linguistics which studies the relationship between signs or symbols with a thing
called of meaning.)
Grammar is a field of linguistics that involves all the various things that make
up the rules of language. Grammar is also used as a term to refer to the prescriptive
rules of a given language, which may change over time and the various theories or
perspective that attempt to understand it. A grammar of a language describes the
principles or rules governing the form and meaning of words, phrases, clauses, and
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sentences. Wren and Martin (1990:3) say that words are divided into different kinds
of classes, also known as part of speech, according to their usage to the work they do
in sentence.
Verb is one of parts of speech. Grammar has been taken an important part of
how to write or speak something. One of grammar’s studies is Verb. However, there
are many different kinds of verbs, including lexical auxuliary verbs, different
semantic classes, single-word verb, and multi-word verb. (Biber, Conrad, and Leech
2002:103). Multi-word verb, fall into: Phrasal verbs, Prepositional verbs, Phrasalprepositional verbs.
Phrasal verbs consist of a verb followed by an adverbial particle (for examples:
carry out, find out, or pick up). When these adverbial particles are independently, they
have literal meanings signifying location or direction (for examples: out, up, down, over,
around, off). However, in phrasal verbs they are commonly used with less literal
meanings. For example, the meaning of find out does not include the “place” meaning of
out. Phrasal Verbs are combinations of verb plus particles that regularly occur
together. They usually have a meaning of their own different from that of either of
the component parts. They are essentially new verbs (Wishon and Burks, 1980:319).
The new unit is different from the two separate words. It means that a verb plus
particle (preposition, adverb) can change the meaning of the verb completely and
create a new verb. Phrasal verbs are often used in speaking and writing in English.
It relates to studying the phrasal verbs because the writer tries to find meaning of
words and phrase. The writer needs to study about grammar to make the writer easier
to understand the phrasal verb in words. In phrasal verb, their meaning cannot be
predicted from the form of each individual word. One part of multi-word verbs is
phrasal verb.
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Wren and Martin (1990:3) say: “words are divided into different kinds of
classes, also known as part of speech, according to their usage to the work they do in
sentence”. There are three kinds of verbs; they are lexical verb, auxiliary verb and
primary verb. From these three kinds of verbs, lexical verbs are the most common
and often occur as multi-word units. These combinations usually have idiomatic
meaning.
Phrasal verbs are so common in everyday conversation and writing. Human
communicate to each other use language. Language is a media of communication.
Crystal (1974:3) says that language is most frequently used and most highly
developed form of human communication. In the way of communication maybe
many people don’t realize that they use phrasal verb in all conversation to another
people. We can find many phrasal verbs in all English text books especially in
magazine, Novel, newspaper or in an article. But sometimes people don’t recognize
them as phrasal verbs. Phrasal verbs are verbs that consist of a verb and a particle (a
preposition or adverb) or a verb and two particles. For example: Laina asked Zon out
to dinner and a movie. Ask out is one of phrasal verbs. The meaning of the world is
invite on a date. It is important to understand phrasal verb because people cannot
predict from the verb or the particle, people need to get new meaning of the phrasal
verb. It is important to understand about phrasal verbs. Because when people study
about phrasal verbs without realizing people know about new words. It will enrich
the vocabularies of the learner. Olteanu (2012:7) states that along the years, phrasal
verbs have been much studied since the 16th century until now. It also denotes that
phrasal verbs are considered to be a very important and frequently occurring feature
of the English language.
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Fall Out Boy is an American rock band formed in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb
of Chicago in 2001. The band consists of vocalist / guitarist Patrick Stump,
bassist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley. The band
originated from Chicago's hardcore punk scene, with which Wentz was heavily
involved. The group was formed by Wentz and Trohman as a pop punk side project
of their respective hardcore bands, and Stump joined shortly thereafter. The group
went through a succession of drummers before landing Hurley and recording their
debut album, Take This to Your Grave (2003), which sold well for independent
label Fueled by Ramen. The band's 2005 major-label breakthrough, From Under the
Cork Tree, produced two hit singles, "Sugar, We're Goin Down" and "Dance,
Dance", and went double platinum, transforming the group into superstars and
making Wentz a celebrity and tabloid fixture. Their 2007 follow-up, Infinity on High,
landed at number one on the Billboard 200, and produced several hit singles, "This
Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" and "Thnks fr th Mmrs". Folie à Deux, the band's
fourth album, created a mixed response from fans and commercially undersold
expectations. The band took a hiatus from 2009 to 2012 to "decompress", exploring
various side projects. They regrouped and recorded Save Rock and Roll (2013),
which gave the band their second career number one and produced the top 20 single
"My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up).
Fall Out Boy is one of American popular rock band that can influence the
writer to analyze their songs, because there are so many variation of meanings in
their lyrics. In this thesis, the analysis has been focused on their lyrics with Phrasal
verbs to find out the semantic meanings. With Phrasal Verbs, the enhancement of
meanings of the lyrics can be created and understand what lyrics mean. The semantic
analysis can ease the listeners to understand the deep meaning of the lyrics.
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In this thesis, the writer focuses on some phrasal verbs in Fall Out Boy’s
selected songs, which found in their lyrics. It is easy to analyze and understand the
phrasal verbs, because many lyrics contains of phrasal verb. Learning about phrasal
verbs in lyrics, can enrich our vocabularies; however phrasal verbs make the writer
easier to find the meaning from the difficult word. So in this case, people should not
only enjoy the songs, but also understand the real meaning of that through learning
the phrasal verb.
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1.2. Problem of the Study
1. What types and patterns of phrasal verbs are found in Fall Out Boy’s Selected
Songs?
2. What are the semantic meaning of the phrasal verbs found in Fall Out Boy’s
Selected Songs?
1.3. Object of the Study
1. To identify the types and patterns of phrasal verbs found in Fall Out Boy’s
Selected Songs
2. To identify the semantic meaning of phrasal verbs found in Fall Out Boy’s
Selected Songs.
1.4. Scope of the Study
In this thesis, the analysis of Phrasal Verbs found in Fall Out Boy’s Selected
Song is focused on the types and patterns Phrasal Verbs in Fall Out Boy’s Selected
Songs. In addition to usage types and patterns this analysis also deals with the
semantic meaning of phrasal verbs.
1.5. Significance of the Study
Practically, this thesis can achieve some significance for the readers as
follows:
1. To help the reader to get clear information about the meaning and the types of
Phrasal Verbs in Fall Out Boy’s Selected Songs.
2. This thesis can be used as a reference for the student of English Literature in
the discussion of Phrasal Verbs.
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