AN ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL AND CONTEXTUAL MEANING IN LEWIS CAPALDI’S SONG LYRICS

Abstract

The research entitled “An Analysis of Lexical and Contextual Meaning in Lewis Capaldi’sSong Lyrics”. This research aimed to find out the lexical and contextual meanings,describing both meanings in each data, and classifying the types of context that are found ineach data. There were three songs as the object of the research taken from DivinelyUninspired to a Hellish Extent’s album entitled “Leaving my Love Behind, Lost on You andHold Me While you Wait”. This research used the descriptive qualitative method since theresearcher analyzed and interpret Lewis Capaldi’s song lyrics. Mansoer Pateda’s theoriesare used in this research. The data were found in the form of words and phrases which havelexical and contextual meaning in song lyrics. The step to obtain the data was collectingsources of data from Lewis Capaldi songs taken from the internet. After that, the researcherread, selected, and listened to the song to understand the context of the song and analyzedthem based on research focuses. As a result of this research, the researcher found 33 datathat had lexical and contextual meaning. Then, from 33 data, there were five types of contextthat are found, such as mood context, situational context, purpose context, object context,and context of time. According to the results found, the situational context is the dominant inthis study since it shows someone's situation about his relationship.
Keywords: semantics, lexical meaning, contextual meaning, Lewis Capaldi