CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of Study

Communication is one thing inevitable for human being. By victimization

language, folks communicate in each spoken or written to precise their concepts,

opinions, suggestion, emotions or want. The examples of spoken communications

square measure gesture and visual communication where as written

communications square measure like scientific essay, article, poem, and lyrics.

Therefore, sender and receiver ought to contemplate the language in their

communication to get the that means or purpose as a result of the implications

of vacuous result in misunderstanding and misinterpretation. What is more,

language additionally includes alternative fields, for instance language as art.

People tend to will simply realize this art language in society such as music,

poem, novel, film, and movie.

The world today really understands the meaning of communication to

connect one another to collect information or just as a means of communication

with communication which has a definition as the process of gathering

information or expressing thoughts and feelings. According to this definition,

people are inherently communicators, communication is the act or activity of

conveying information for the purpose of creating common understanding, it is

something humans do every day. This activity is used to convey information

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through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information. All forms of

communication require a speaker or sender of information, a message and an

audience or recipient for the same basic elements. For successful communication,

the sender and recipient must also have a common language or common

understanding.

Language is a communication tool that has a function to communicate

something, emotional release, which is focused on delivering the message or

expressing oneself through spoken and written. Once somebody spoke, he or she

made an utterance. Utterance is part of communication to express the meaning and

express the purpose of interaction. Every utterance, there is an inexplicit meaning

that is terribly enthusiastic about when, where, who the speaker is, who the

auditor is, and in what things the speech is made. The really who produces

utterance is to provide and obtain information, to induce someone to try and do

something, to create someone to understand something, or to achieve their goal. In

communication, what the speaker says is meaty, and it's sent particularly by

language, the message to be understood and delivered by the auditor; therefore, it

is accepted with none of controversy. Sometimes, one utterance has more than one

meaning, and it depends on the situation.

Language is a tool or system of symbols designed for purpose of

communication and interaction with each other (Lyons, 2002). In addition, People

use language to transmit and express their ideas, emotions or desire either in oral

or written forms. Therefore, the language that we used ought to be meaningful to

prevent misunderstanding or misinterpretation between sender and receiver.

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Furthermore, language is not only used as communication media but also usually

involved in other fields such as language as arts. It can be found in advertisement

and entertainment which appear in society such as music, novel, film or movie.

One example of entertainment media is music which is familiar in society.

Music is a basic of human instinct, and also a daily basis human activity which is

universally inspired with love and experience (Piragasam et.al, 2013). It is

universal among human cultures. Music is expected to give pleasure for people

listening to it that is an arrangement of sounds made by musical instruments,

singing or computers, or a combination of these (Walter, 2008).

Nowadays, listening music is not only categorized as hobby but also

becomes favorite thing for many people especially teenagers. Sometimes, people

listen to music while doing their activities such as working, studying, eating even

during sleeping. It is because music can evoke different feelings among audience

(Raj&Muniapan, 2012) and also especially for music-making through his/her

creativity which is created by song. Therefore, People will achieve pleasure and

experience mood change by listening to music (Piragasam et al., 2013).

There are many kinds of music such as rock, jazz, pop, R&B and rap. All

those kinds of music have spread everywhere, including to our country. Western

music has produced a lot of singers who are very famous on their own music, like

Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Taylor Swift etc. In the same way, many moslem singers

from east or western countries are also very famous with their songs that contain

about principles of Islam such as Sami Yusuf, Maher Zein, Raef and Harris J.
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In music, a song is a composition that contains vocal parts (lyrics) that are

performed (sung), commonly accompanied by music instruments (Raj &

Muniapan, 2012: 2). According to Crowther (1995: 1133), song is a usual short

piece of music with words which are sung. It is another way to convey people‟s

feeling and emotion to someone else through lyrics. The lyricist tries to take the

audience to the world created by his/her imagination and make the audience

thinks and reacts (Raj & Muniapan, 2012). In addition a number of lyrics in song

also give an inspiration for life. Therefore, when the people listen to song lyric,

sometimes they do not only try to apprehend the meaning of lyric itself, but also

the meaning of the reader or speaker means. The study of what speakers mean or

speaker meaning is called pragmatics.

Pragmatic is concerned with the study of meaning, it is related to

pragmatics. Pragmatic is involved with the take a look at of meaning as

communication with the aid of a speaker (or author) and interpreted through a

listener (reader it has therefore greater to do with the analysis or what human

beings mean by way of their utterances than what the phrases or phrases in the one

utterances may mean themselves Pragmatics is the study of the speaker sense.

There are numerous motives why the writer chooses pragmatic.

Firstly, pragmatic is prevalent. Knowledge people get while they observe

pragmatic may be very vast / ordinary because while people have a look at

pragmatic they are able to learn about the authentic that means to be conveyed by

using the speaker or author from the phrases or moves that they receive they will

observe them thoroughly so that people will understand the message or the
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intention of the speaker or writer carry. Besides, being popular, pragmatic is also

chosen with the aid of the writer to facilitate verbal exchange. In each day

existence pragmatic plays a critical role due to the fact that in a daily communique

pragmatic can help us in knowing what is brought by the speaker so that they do

not ask too many questions. People can apprehend the communique without

difficulty. In addition to being established and facilitating conversation, the writer

chooses pragmatic to be analyzed because pragmatic is challenging. According to

the author, analyzing pragmatic could be very tough due to the fact that when

people examine pragmatic, people are able to use guessing more or use our minds

to think about messages that are being brought through the speaker implicitly.

Pragmatic talk several topics consisting of deixis and distance, reference and

inference, presupposition and entailtement, cooperation and implicature, speech

acts and occasions, politeness and interplay, verbal exchange and preference

structure, discourse and tradition.

In this study, the writer chose deixis to be analyzed. According to Yule

(1996), deixis is derived from a Greek word which means pointing via language.

Deixis is used to analyze the communication, utterance or sentence due to the fact

each utterance is associated with the reference to approximately human beings,

place or time. The meaning of the sentences or utterances may be clear if the

listener or reader is aware of approximately who, in which, and while the

utterance is uttered. Moreover, deixis may be defined as an expression which is

sure by its context. Every language has deictic phrases which point to things in the

physical social context of the speaker. For instance, the addressee of the
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utterances can be determined with the aid of knowing the context of the utterance

itself. Deictic words can be determined in any kind of texts, but the author

determines to research the deictic expression in song lyrics because there should

be a meaning in what the writer of the track lyrics stocks.

Deixis is a study about pointing to in an utterance. Classifying the deictic

phrase in an utterance and describing what the word pointing to be the manner to

recognise the context of the utterance. After understanding the context of an

utterance, humans might be able to understand the sense of it. Therefore, the

reason for using the pragmatics method is due to the fact these studies are set

which means of the utterance.

These studies make a speciality of looking at a song lyric by Daniel

Bedingfield as it could be extra interesting to have to observe something which

becomes too near a part of human existence which includes song. Actually, there

are numerous utterances that can be analyzed, but the author is interested in

investigating the lyrics of the song lyrics considering the fact that there are a lot of

human beings who pay attention to music. Nevertheless, almost all the humans do

not understand approximately the real lyric of the lyrics, they normally simply

concentrate on the music for numerous times and memorize it by their hearing.

Moreover, track lyrics should have a sense. People who recognize the music must

additionally understand the meaning. When the listener does no longer understand

the meaning of the track lyrics, the message of that track could not be brought

nicely. The first manner to make explicit the meaning of song lyrics is the

listeners should understand the meaning of every single phrase. It is the first way
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to know what the means of music’s lyric is. Then, they have to know

approximately the context of the song lyrics, so the meaning can be related to the

context. Last, they have to understand the reference to the word within the track

lyrics. When the listener does not know about the reference of the phrase, the

meaning will be wide and not element. The listener could have an extraordinary

interpretation of the song lyrics.

For the reason above, the writer assumes that there should be deictic words

in the music lyrics which have a reference which can make the lyric easy to be

understood. Thus, have a look at the information about deixis in the track lyrics,

which turn into important and thrilling. If there is a reference in the utterance, and

those do no longer realize what it refers to, the meaning can be hard to discover.

Moreover, the hearers additionally ought to recognize the characteristic and the

effect of deixis that is used in the song lyric to understand the meaning of its

music. Therefore, the author also analyzes the function and the impact of deixis

that's used within the music lyric.

Actually, there are many song lyrics that may be analyzed. However, the

author desires to examine the deixis in music lyrics of Daniel Bedingfield because

of a few motives.

The motive why the author selects these songs is due to the fact the lyrics

have such a deep meaning, and there are many sentences in this music lyric that

comprise deixis. On this occasion the author will write an undergraduate thesis
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entitled "The Deixis Analysis of the Chosen Song Lyrics by Daniel

Bedingfield"

1.2 Problem Formulation

1.2.1 What kinds of deixis are used in the chosen song lyrics from Daniel

Bedingfield?

1.2.2 What are the dominant types of deixis used in the chosen song lyrics

from Daniel Bedingfield?

1.3 Objective of Study

Based on the research question, the writer has the following objectives of

study. First, the writer wants to determine the deixis devices that are used, and the

dominant deixis that used in the chosen song lyrics from Daniel Bedingfield.

1.4 Benefit of Study

This research gives four contributions for the English teacher, the English

learner, the institution and for the writer.

The first contribution for English teacher, the research gives information

about deixis that can be found in the song lyric. So, the teacher can give the

example of the song lyric not only on the grammatical but also can give them the

knowledge of literature and analyze the language based on the purpose.

The second contribution for English learners is the research can give more

information about the deixis which are implied in utterance itself, and this

research can be a reference and guide for their research.

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The third contribution contributions for the institution, this research can be

reference of all collages student as a guide for creating and analyzing deixis.

In the last contribution for the writer, this research can be reference of all

collages student as a guide for creating and analyzing deixis.

1.5 Definition of Terms

1.5.1 Deixis

Deictic word or expression can be used to indicate people called

person deixis (I, you), location called spatial deixis (here, there),

time named temporal deixis (now, later), social deixis (the one,

God), and Discourse deixis (but, so) (Cruse,2000).

1.5.2 Song

The act of art singing, in other word could say that a song is a place

of music sung or as if for singing (Walter, 2008).

1.5.3 Lyric

A kind of poetry, expressing direct personal feeling and it is

composed for singing ( Walter, 2008).