Name : Mar’atul Latifah Jauharin Nafi’

Student Number : 0203521034

Class : Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris-S2-Reg 2
Subject : Semantics

The Analyzing of the lyrics of As Love Is My Witness song based of seven types meaning.
As Love Is My Witness- Westlife

Once in a lifetime
This sentence has conceptual meaning. Once in a lifetime means a day in a life that
really exists.

You look in someone's eyes

This is thematic meaning where the writer chooses an alternative grammatical
construction. It can also be written as someone’s eye is looked in you.

And it feels like the world stops turning at once

This sentence has connotative meaning because the world actually will never stop
turning. It also can be affective meaning because the writer shows his sad feeling
because of jealousy by imagines such a great bad thing as the world stop turning,
which it is possible, and if it really happened, it is really terrible for as.

Well, that's what it felt like for me

This sentence explains the feeling of sad and jealous from the sentence before. It’s
also affective meaning because he explains his feeling here.

I knew right away, this day would be Standing together, believing forever, is
there in our reach.
“This day” has connotative meaning means “now condition” or “start from now
condition”. The words “standing together” and “believing forever” has affective
meaning. They show how the figure express belief, trust, and confident about what
will happened to their relationship.

As love is my witness
This sentence has connotative meaning. A love will never can be a witness. Because a
love can be seen. It’s mean that the real witness here is the proof of someone who said
that love.
I swear, I'll be with you 'til the end
The writer wants to show how the figure of this story really loves with someone, and
he said that he’ll be with her until the end that means forever. He won’t to lose her
and always want to say beside her.

Nothing can tear this love apart

the meaning of tear in dictionary is pull or rip (something) apart or to places with
force. The word tear here has collocated meaning. It is the same when we use tear in
sentence “I tore up the letter”.

I'll put my hand upon my heart

In real life, the hand will never can be put upon the heart. It is connotative meaning.
The meaning of this sentence is the man put his hand in his chest and he will make a
promise as mention in the next paragraph.

This is the promise I make to you

Promise here has conceptual meaning that the meaning of promise is what promise
mention as its denotative meaning.

Whatever comes we'll see it through

“it” here has reflected meaning. It belongs to” the promise”. We know that promise
will never see by the eyes. It can only knowing that after the figure who has promised
showing the proof. The only thing we can see is the proof activity he would do, isn’t
the promise.

Nothing can break it, the feeling's too strong

This sentence has affected meaning because it shows the feeling of the writer that he
said “the feeling’s too strong”. Collective meaning is also found in “break it”. What
means broken is the “promise”, break has meaning separate or cause to separate into
pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain. It is the synonymous with the word
“tear” for this context.

As love is my witness
This sentence has connotative meaning. A love will never can be a witness. Because a
love can be seen. It’s mean that the real witness here is the proof of someone who said
that love.
We've both known sorrow
We have known heartache
When our dreams for tomorrow seemed so far away
These three sentences have affected meaning that express sad feeling. We can see
from the words “sorrow”, “heartache”. The sad feeling caused by “the dreams” that
“seemed so far away”. Far away here has connotative meaning, the real meaning is
the dreams likes impossible or getting difficult to be reached.

But that brought us closer, yeah

It brought us together
The word “closer” and “brought” has connotative meaning. It means that from those
phenomena before make the figure of this song getting more in touch with his crush.

So that we'd know the real thing

That's why I can say
The two last sentences has affective meaning that show the feeling of relief of the
figure because they finally know the truth by saying “know the real thing”, and there
is no doubt to him to say it all.