A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF ENTAILMENT APPLIED IN SONG LYRICS BASED ON NIKI’S RECENT FULL ALBUM: “NICOLE”

Aolia Maelani, Suci Budiwaty

Abstract

The topics discussed in this research were types of entailment in song lyrics of Niki’s
full album, “Nicole”, and the order of entailment applied. The objectives were to
identify the types of entailment and to describe the orders of entailment applied in the
song lyrics in Niki’s recent full album “Nicole”. This research used a descriptive
qualitative approach that employed the theory of Fromkin, Rodman, and Hyams
(2011); Lakoff and Johnson (2003); and Yule (2000). The data found in this research
were 43 data within the song lyrics sentences and the results showed there were 30%
(13 data) for one-way entailment; negative entailment 30% (13) of the data; mutual
entailment 26% (11 data); meanwhile metaphorical entailment percentages only 14%
(6 data). A significant void exists in the use of entailment orders. Background
entailment occurred frequently in the data used, as it took 95% of the percentage which
was equivalent to 41 data, while in the other orders; foreground entailment reached
only 5% or two of the data.

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