An Analysis of Message Meaning in Iwan Fals’ Songs: Terminal and Sore Tugu Pancoran

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine the figurative language, the contextual meaning, and also the message of Iwan Fals’ songs from the figurative language used in that song based on theory from Hatch and Brown (1995), symbol, and also oxymoron. The researcher uses qualitative analysis as a research design. The source of data is taken from website named abclyric.com which consists of two songs from Iwan Fals with the title Terminal and Sore Tugu Pancoran. The instrument of this study is the researcher himself. There are several steps to collect the data namely searching, downloading, reading, identifying, classifying, and also encoding. The researcher uses a model from Miles and Huberman (1994) in order to analyze the data. The result shows that contextual meaning of each figurative language in two songs of Iwan Fals is clearly stated. In addition, this study concludes that there are several types of figurative language used by Iwan Fals in his songs, which are personification, synecdoche, irony, simile, metaphor, and paradox.