AN ANALYSIS OF CONNOTATIVE MEANING ON WESTLIFE SONG LYRICS BASED ON SEMANTICS

ABSTRACT: This research was conducted to analyze connotative meaning on Westlife song Lyrics based onSemantic. This research focuses on connotative meaning and also defines it in semantic meaning of the data.Therefore, the researchers formulated a question as the problem. As follow: (1) What kinds of connotativemeaning are found on Westlife song lyrics based on semantics, (2) What are the dominant types of Connotativemeaning used on Westlife song lyrics. The researchers used qualitative design because data are collected byusing documents in form of word and a procedure of systematic analysis content text (word, phrase, documents,etc.), analysis content by qualitative enable researchers to understand the text by grouping words that have samemeaning into categories. In this research the data to be reviewed isWestlife song lyrics which containconnotative meanings based on semantics. This research focused on three types of connotative meaning thereare positive, negative, neutral meaning.The result of the research, researchers found total of connotativemeaning 39 song lyrics in 20 of Westlife song as the data. Positive consist 20 data (50%), Negative consist 12data (32,35%) and Neutral consist 7 data (17,64)

KEYWORDS: Connotative, Song, Lyric, Semantic