Figurative Language in Shawn Mendes’ Selected Songs from Handwritten Album: A Semantic Analysis = Figurative Language in Shawn Mendes’ Selected Songs from Handwritten Album: A Semantic Analysis

MUHAMMAD CHOIRI. Figurative Language in Shawn Mendes’ Selected Songs from Handwritten Album: A Semantic Analysis (supervised by Husain Hasyim and Simon Sitoto). This research aims to analyze the use of figurative language types and also explain the meaning of figurative language contained in selected songs in Shawn Mendes' Handwritten album. This study used a descriptive qualitative method. Research data was obtained from five selected songs on Shawn Mendes' Handwritten album, namely Stitches, Something Big, Never Be Alone, Aftertaste, and Kid In Love. Data collection was carried out by listening and reading all the song lyrics via a digital platform in the form of YouTube. The writer then selected parts of the lyrics containing types of figurative language using Kennedy's (1979) theory which was cited in Atmaja (2022). After that, the writer interpreted the meaning of the figurative language contained in the lyrics of the songs. Based on the results of the analysis, there are 30 (thirty) data related to the use of figurative language in song lyrics. The data included two data for personification, nine data for metaphor, six data for simile, nine data for hyperbole, one datum for irony, one datum for paradox, and two data for symbol. The research results show that the most data found are hyperbole and metaphor. Meanwhile, the fewest data found are irony and paradox. The songs that found the most figurative language are Stitches with five types (personification, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, and symbol) and Something Big that also has five types (personification, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, and irony). In contrast, the songs that found the fewest figurative language are Aftertaste and Kid in love with two types of each, namely metaphor and hyperbole.

Keyword : Figurative Language, ‘Handwritten’ Album, Shawn Mendes, Semantics