PERSONIFICATION IN MARIAH CAREYAoS SONG LYRICS Angelia Firstnov Siow.
J Wowor.
Rinny Rorimpandey English Education Department.
Faculty of Language and Arts.
Universitas Negeri Manado.
Tondano.
Indonesia Email: afs.
anglia@gmail.
Abstract :
The research is done in order to identify and describe the expressions of personification in Mariah CareyAos selected song lyrics.
This study is only focuse on the personification expressions in the song lyrics of popular female singer Mariah Carey.
Since there are a lot of albums populariz by Mariah Carey during her singing career, the researcher only took albums that consists of song lyrics with personification use to be the subject of the study This study has conduct in qualitative method or also call descriptive research.
In this research, the data were collect from the song lyrics of Mariah Carey.
The data is analyzing using the theory According to Miles and Hubermen .
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Based on the result, thirty personification data has found in Mariah CareyAos song lyrics.
Language is fundamental to all social processes, and human do need language to communicate to each In social process, there are people who communicate more than the say the use language that indicate meaning more than the language does.
This terms called figurative language (Samola and Maru.
Figurative languages are used in the song lyrics.
Specifically, personification is the figurative langugae found through this study.
function of using personifcation expressions is to beautify or decorate the songlyrics them selves so that it is effective in attracting public and the meaning is beautifully delivered to the song listeners.
Language style can be help readers and listeners to better understand a meaning of songs, how composer use words in their lyrics, and how does that mean The composer use personification so that the meaning of the wors use become more touching and beautiful.
Keywords:
Figurative Language Personification.
Mariah Carey .
Linguistics.
INTRODUCTION
Language cannot be separate from human life aspect.
In every day communication the tool that is often used to comunicate is language, both in the form if written language and oral language (Hampp.
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It allows people to express their messages, feelings, emotion, and exactly used to communicate each other.
Language is used by everyone with various purposes.
According to language is the most important aspect in the life of all human beings.
Halliday & Matthiessen .
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, it is possible to refer to language as text and as system, as sound, as writing and as wording, as structure as resource.
As it can be seen, language can be referred to many things but the most important function of language is to create and express meaning.
Language is a resource of the construction of the With the help of lexical and grammatical structures it is possible to express different meanings.
Language has a lot of functions.
One of the is expressive function.
According to Halliday and Hasan .
, expressive function is the expressive being language that orientation toward the It means that individual express their feeling by language.
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Language has a function as a tool of comunication used by human to expres their thoughts, feelings, desires, and action.
Then, expressive function also expresses personal feelings, thoughts, ideas, and opinions, with different choice words, intonation, etc.
These expressions are submissive to social factors and to the nature of the expression as negative or (Holmes, 1992: .
Acording to (Hampp.
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Language is a communication tool, and a means for social Figurative language is a language used by poets to say things in an unusual way, namely indirectly to express their The figurative language is a deviation from the language of anapprehends as the ordinary, or standard, significance or sequence of words, in order to achieve some special meaning or effect.
According Wolosky .
, personification is a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to an animal, object, or idea.
Personification refers to a figure of speech equating things with humans, inanimate objects can do, thinking, and so on like humans.
It becomes the type of figurative languages that attaches attributes of human beings to things that are lifeless and abstract ideas.
Basically, a song is a poem that is sung because both have similarities in elements such as sound, rhythm and rhythm which are the formal elements of a poem.
In addition to these formal elements must also be considered when determining the meaning of a song.
According to F.
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AuOne of comunication is a song.
Similar to a poem, a song apllies figutative It is a language espression, whose meaning is differet from its literal one, it drives listeners to spend extra effort to understand the meaning of the songAy.
Mariah Carey is female well-known singer that can be said a great diva because her career in international music industry.
most song lyrics.
Mariah CareyAos song lyrics contain various figurative languages, including the use of personification.
From the reasons above, the writer is interested to conduct a research on personification expressions in Mariah CareyAos song lyrics.
RESEARCH METHOD
Research Design This study is conduct in qualitative research or also call descriptive research as stated by Bogdan and Biklen .
AoQualitative research is descriptive.
The data is collect in the form of words or pictures rather than numbers.
The written results of the research contain quotations from the data to illustrate and substantiate the presentationAy.
It means that the data of this qualitatif research do not deal with numbers, diagram, or formula but in form of words prase and sentence or quotation.
The data is collect in the form words and sentence of song lyrics.
Data Collection In this research, data is collect from the song lyrics of Mariah Carey, particularly the song published in Caution and her another album.
In accordance with the statement above, the writers collecting and identifi the data of the research.
In collecting the data, the writers following these steps below:
Listening to the songs of Mariah Carey download song lyrics of Mariah Carey Read the song lyrics while listen the song Identify song lyrics that contain Note the song lyrics that contain to Recheck the song lyrics that have been collected.
Grouping the songs lyrics based on the theory that I used belong.
Data Analysis In analyzing the qualitative data of this research, according to Miles and Hubermen .
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the steps were used as follows:
Data Reduction Data reduction is done by summarizing and separating the points that relating to this research problems, and then it is arranged systematically to describes and to make easy the reasercher to reduction the data searching if sometime it is Not all the obtain data in this research are important.
means just take the important information and unimportant information should be ignored.
In this process of data reduction, the researcher selected, focuses and abstracted the data in the The data reduction is done during research activities.
and on this case, the researcher reduce the information during the activities of research, so resercher migth befound the data that not support the reaserch that researcherAos Data Display The Data display is use to represent the result othe After the data has been finished, and researcher can able to check and verify it to be meaningful data.
it means describing data in the form of writing text or spoken words.
the second step to analyzing data, this step is use in arranging the information, description, or narration to make conclusion.
presenting this conclution or result the researcher has decide what the step will be.
The data then were categorized using theory by Wolosky.
Conclusion and Verification The result or conclusions is taking out from the course of the The researcher colect the data from her interpretations as she goes along.
The researcher wrote up not the only things that she found each day but also her interpretation of those findings.
DATA ANALYSIS
Data Reduction In Mariah CareyAos Song lyrics, the researcher found out that there ware many words that are in form of figurative The researcher reduced the data and took only personification expressions as presented below.
There are 30 personification expressions as found in Mariah CareyAos Song lyrics.
He had eyes that said, "Girl.
I'll save you" (With You, line .
And once we lit this towering The flame is burning higher, hotter we go And the temperature is rising, crack a window (One MoAoGen, line .
Thursday wake up and now it's Sunday Everyday she help me, got no money (Stay Long Love You,line .
Bought her diamonds if they mess with the Chanel pearls We stay together and we can take over the whole world (Stay Long Love You,line .
Here beyond the looking glass Somewhere off the beaten path (Portrait, line .
Let the moonlight kiss your When you dance like that, your jeans so tight Oh, youAore killing me, baby do it again (Beautiful,line .
YouAore beautiful , and your mind is fucking beautiful (Beautiful,line .
But your love rained down upon Washing away uncertainty (I am Free, line 20-.
Soft heavenly eyes gazed into Transcending space and time (When I Saw You,line .
You are the one for me And it's evident And your eyes told me so And your eyes let me know.
(When I Saw You,line 24-.
Sinking in the memories Shadows of you keep washing over me (Long Ago,line 20-.
A flower taught me how to pray But as I grew, that flower (Petals, line 5-.
Everytime I try to leave Something pulls me back baby (Irresistible,line 1-.
Gypsy, sittin lookin pretty A broken rose and laughin' eyes (Bringing on the Heartbreak,line 1-.
We clickin' glasses.
Compliments of the club.
Raise they status.
So you know they show us love (Migrate,line 42-.
I'm going bout a hundred Mascara runnin Laughing out of anger But it don't strike me as funny (BethcaAoGon Now,line 18-.
So I pulled to the side Of the road to fix my face But I can't cover with make up What my tears want to erase (BethcaAoGon Now,line 38-.
Boy, you remind me of a love that seemed so Your kisses told me oh so many lies (Standing O,LINE 6-.
'Cause lighting don't strike the same place twice When you and I said goodbye I felt the angels cry (Angels Cry,line 12-.
And we sat close enough That we just barely touched While roman candles Went soaring above us and baby (Fourth of July, line 8-.
Thunder clouds Hung around So threateningly Ominously hovering (Fourth of July, line 33-.
Guardian angel I Sail away on an ocean With you by my side Orange clouds roll by They burn into your image And you're still alive (Close My Eyes, line 31-.
I wanna be your babydoll Wrap me up nice and tight Love me all through the night Come lay me down Enfold me in your arms (Babydoll, line 11-.
A full moon .
eah yea.
Is waiting in the twilight Maybe soon (Sweetheart, line 9-.
You are the one for me And it's evident And your eyes told me so And your eyes let me know (When I Saw You, line 26-.
While roman candles Went soaring above us and (Fourth of July, line 10-.
Everyday crucial situation wrackin' my mind Tryin' to break me down (Breakdown, line 40-.
Alone will tell If you feel the way I feel When I look in your eyes (After Tonight, line 20-.
Flower taught me how to pray But as I grew, that flower She started failing in the wind (Petals, line 5-.
All my life My love's been waiting for you All my life My heart's been waiting too (All my life,line 9-.
Data Display Having reduced and obtained the personification expressions in Mariah CareyAos Song lyrics , the researcher displayed the data by grouping the personification expressions based on their types Wolosky .
He argued that there are two types of personification namely direct personification and indirect Direct personification are consider to be happened, even though itAos being described in an unrealistic way.
Direct personification tends to be more powerful than indirect one.
On the other hand, indirect personification readersAo imaginantion and interpretation to gain the meaning of the wors personified by the writer or The of the persinification use is present The chart is below:
THE USE OF PERSONIFICATION IN
MARIAH CAREY'S SONG LYRICS
Indirect Direct Data Conclusion and Verification After putting the entire personification data found in the songlyrics of Mariah Carey, categorizing based on types, explaining the maning and context, the data were then interpreted as findings of the study.
It is interpreted that the figurative languages were used in the songlyrics of Mariah Carey, distributed in many albums There are twenty personifications in the songlyrics of Mariah Carey .
Particularly, human abilities to non human references is frequently used in the The personifcation is functional since most frequently the expressions are used in the purpose of decorating and beautfying the words chosen to be the lyric of the song.
Therefore, the meaning becomes more social, implied, more living and with 13 data .
66%), whereas indirect personification is the least type with 11 data .
33%).
Song is one of the media to channel ideas, messages, one's feelings and creativity.
In this connection, the language used in song lyrics is an interesting thing to study because in it contain aesthetic and artistic values that are displayed through use various types of language styles.
The style of language used in a song can help the listener understand the ideas that are being conveyed, feel the emotions that want to be raise, and see the creativity that wants display by its creator.
Dealing with the types of personification, there are two types mainly used in the songlyrics of Mariah Carey, namely direct Based on the personification expressions used in the different songlyrics of Mariah Carey.
Indirect personification is also found where there are eleven percentage,direct personification is the most frequest personification type in the songlyrics of Mariah Carey Each song must have a specific purpose to be conveyed to the public as the listener.
The song contains a line of words that are arrange well with an interesting style of language by the composer and delivered with a beautiful voice singer.
This study analyzes the lyrics of songs because they have varying attractiveness.
Figurative language is a typical way of expressing thoughts and feelings in oral or written form.
Language style is a way of expressing thoughts through language that typically shows the soul of the personality of the language user.
Conclusion .
Language style can be help readers and listeners to better understand a meaning of the songs, how composer use words in their lyrics, and how does that Figurative languages are used in the song lyrics.
Specifically, personification is the figurative langugae found Personification in the song lyrics Mariah Carey are very The songwriter used personification so that the meaning of the wors are become more touching and beautiful.
Mariah Carey,in conclusion is the singer whose song lyrics contain personification that are very .
There personification data found in Mariah CareyAos song lyrics.
From those expressions, there are thirteen expressions that are classifi as direct personification .
66%) which are easier to be understoond by song listeners, while the rest are eleven personifcation expressions are personification .
33%) since it needs more interpretation of the song listeners.
Mostly, the function of usin personifcation expressions is to beautify or themeselves so that it is effective in attracting public and the meaning is beautifully delivered to the song listeners.
Suggestion .
Figurative language is an effective way to beautify word used in song lyrics since song lyrics have poower to bring message to people about live, love and many other aspects.
songwriter becomes more poetic and the words become more Personification is one of the figurative languages commonly used is capable to compare things to human qualities so that the words and their meaning become more vivid and powerful.
To the lecturers, the study result that personifcation is commonly used in the song lyrics can be a suggestion that in the process of teaching literature and linguistics may involve song lyrics as media or object since this is a linguistic phenomenon.
To the students, it is recommended to use as reference and input so that there will be interest to study or research eeply on semantics.
the next researchers, there can be more studies that deal with semantics or otehr subfields of linguistics, other figurative languages, other song lyrics, other singers or songwriters.
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