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Comparative Figures of Speech in the Collection of Reality Club’s Songs: A Semantic Study

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Puspita Sari1, *, Muhammad Ilman Nashrullah Nurdin1
1Widyatama University Bandung of Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: puspita.sari@widyatama.ac.id
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Puspita Sari
Available Online 27 December 2024.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-608-6_5How to use a DOI?
Keywords
semantics; figures of comparison; meaning
Abstract

This study aims to identify the types of figures of comparison in the collection of Reality Club’s Songs and the meanings contained. This study used the theory of types of figures of comparison by Kennedy (1983) and the theory of meaning according to (Lyons, 1968). The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative method. This study begins with gathering information, collecting data, identifying the problems, classifying the data, analyzing the data and finally making conclusions. The results show that from 57 study data found in the collection of Reality Club songs, there are 4 types of figures of comparison with the following description, 32 data (56%) of metaphor, 9 data (16%) of personification, 5 data (9%) of hyperbole, 11 data (19%) of simile. Based on the form of meaning, there are 54 data (95%) of connotative meaning and 3 data (5%) of denotative meaning. This study concludes that the type of figures of comparison in the collection of Reality Club’s songs is dominated by the type of metaphorical comparison. Meanwhile, the meaning of comparison is dominated by connotative meaning.

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Proceedings of the 1st Widyatama International Conference on Management, Social Science and Humanities (ICMSSH 2024)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
27 December 2024
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978-94-6463-608-6
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2352-5398
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