STUDI MAKNA KONOTATIVE DARI LIRIK LAGU-LAGU ROCK MICHAEL LEARNS TO LYRICS
This writing is entitled A Study on Connotative Meaning of Selected Michael Learns To Rock’s Songs Lyrics. The aims of this writing areto identify the connotative meaning and to know and understand the message that existing in selected Michael Learns To Rock’s Songs Lyrics.In this research, the writer used descriptive qualitative method. It was used to describe the connotative meaning of selected Michael Learns To Rock’s Songs Lyrics and to describe the message that existing in selected Michael Learns To Rock’s Songs Lyrics.There were some procedures used by the writer in order to carry out this research, namely: The writer chose the selected Michael Learns To Rock’s Songs Lyric; the writer collected the data by downloading the songs and the lyrics; the writer listenned to the song to find the connotative meaning of the song lyrics; the writer read carefully the selected lyrics in order to understand its whole meaning; the writer found out any supporting books or some literature from library and internet to obtain important information, the theories, concepts, ideas or opinion which is relevant with the purpose of this writing; the writer retyped the data got from the lyric; after transcribing the data, the writeridentified and classified the forms of connotation; finally, the writer described the data in order to answer the problem of the research. Then, the data will be analyzed in descriptive based on the connotation theory. So, the writer used non-statistical analysis to analyze the data. The rearch shows that (1) denotative meaning lies on almost every song lyrics of Michael Learns To Rock, but the connotative meaning only lies fiveteen words in the three song lyrics, which it is the main data of this study and (2) the writer found connotative meaning occurs in partial of the lyric, and the denotative meaning occurs in majority of the lyric. The message of the lyric is delivered by MLTR in a good structure by using positive connotative meaning.