MINI RESEARCH

1. Background

Lyric especially for music having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially
the character of a song like outpouring of the poet’s on thought and feelings, as distinguished
from epic and dramatic poetry. Lyric could be supported to our experience, knowledge, and
vocabulary.

The reason why the writer choose lyric for this mini research is because in the lyric have
many meaning to understand for listener from the creator of that music .(Owl City – To the
Sky).

2. Research Question

a. Does the lyric used semantic features?

b. How many nouns used in the lyric “Owl City – To the Sky” based on analyze in
semantic features?

3. Theoretical Framework

In connection with the componential analysis, there are several things to note, namely:
a. Distinguishing the meaning and relationship between components of meaning
b. Step analysis of meaning components
c. Barriers analysis of meaning components
d. procedures for the analysis of meaning components

- Used to distinguish the meaning of a word with another word.

For example, the word father and mother can be distinguished by the presence or
absence of masculine traits.
Distinguishing Characteristics
Father – Mother
. human, adult, marry, male.

- Formulation in the dictionary.

In General Dictionary composition define the word horse as 'hoofed mammals that one
and ordinary people maintained for vehicles’. So the attribute of mammals, hoofed one, and
maintained ordinary people 'is a common characteristic and characteristic meaning of'
vehicle 'is a special characteristic that distinguishes it from cows and goats.
Distinguishing Characteristics Horse Goat Cattle
.Nurse, hoofed one, maintained, vehicle.

- It can classify words or lexical items as in the field theory of meaning.

- Can be used to find differences in synonymous words

Synonymous words such as stables, cottages, houses, castles, palaces, and guesthouse.
The word is considered synonymous with the basic meaning of 'residence'. The word pen
can be distinguished from the five other words based on the feature [human] and [-human].

4. Data Collection

Owl City – To the Sky

Dada dada, da da da da da da da da
Dada dada, da da da da da da da da

Shipwreck in the sea of faces,

There’s a dreamy world up there,
Dear friends in higher places.
Carry me away from here,
Travel light let the sun eclipse you,
‘Cause your flight is about to leave,
and there’s more to this brave adventure,
Than you’d ever believe

Birdseye view, awake the stars ‘cause

they’re around you,
wide eyes will always brighten the blue,
Chase you’re dreams, and remember me, speak bravery,
Cause after all those wings will take you,
up so high
So bid the forest floor goodbye,
 as you brace the wind and,
Take to the sky,… you take to the sky

Dada dada, da da da da da da da da
Dada dada, da da da da da da da da
On the hills of lore and wonder,
there’s stormy world up there,
you can’t whisper above the thunder,
But you can fly anywhere,
purple burst of paper birds this,
picture paints a thousand words,
so take a breath of mist and mystery,
and don’t look back!

Birdseye view, awake the stars ‘cause

they’re around you,
wide eyes will always brighten the blue,
Chase you’re dreams, and remember me, speak bravery,
Cause after all those wings will take you,
up so high
So bid the forest floor goodbye,
as you brace the wind and,
Take to the sky,… you take to the sky

There’s a realm above the trees,

where the lost are finally found,
touch your feathers to the breeze,
and leave the ground,

Birdseye view, awake the stars ‘cause

 they’re around you,
wide eyes will always brighten the blue,
Chase you’re dreams, and remember me, speak bravery,
Cause after all those wings will take you,
up so high
So bid the forest floor goodbye,
as you brace the wind and,
Take to the sky,… you take to the sky

Dada dada, da da da da da da da da
Dada dada, da da da da da da da da

You take to the sky….

5. Finding / Data Analysis

 Shipwreck = [-animate], [-living], [-human], [+concrete]

 Sea = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Faces = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [+concrete]
 World = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Places = [-animate], [-living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Friends = [+animate], [+living], [+human], [+concrete]
 Sun = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Travel light = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Birdseye = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Stars = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Eyes = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Dreams = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [-concrete]
 Wings = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Forest = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Floor = [-animate], [-living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Brace = [-animate], [-living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Wind = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [-concrete]
 Sky = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [+concrete]
  Hills = [-animate], [-living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Stormy = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [-concrete]
 Thunder = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [-concrete]
 Burst = [-animate], [-living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Paper = [-animate], [-living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Picture = [-animate], [-living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Paints = [-animate], [-living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Breath = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [-concrete]
 Realm = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [+concrete]
 Trees = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [+concrete]
 feathers = [+animate], [+living], [-human], [+concrete]

6. Conclusion

From this lyric “Owl City – To the Sky” that the writer has analyzed, the writer
can take the conclusion that almost half of the lyric is a noun, and rest of them are noun
phrase, adjective, verb and soon.
In this mini research the writer took some sample of the lyric which is uses noun
that consist of animate noun and inanimate noun of the sentence. In this story used noun
which percentage is 20 animate, 20 living, one human and 24 concrete from 29 noun
words in this lyric.

7. References

- Finegan, et al. 1992. Language: It’s Structure and Use. Sydney: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, Publishers.
- Fromkin, et al. 1992. An Introduction to Language. Australian edition. Sydney: Holt
Rhinehart & Winston.
- www.directlyrics.com/owl-city-to-the-sky-lyrics.html