ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL MEANING AND

CONTEXTUAL MEANING IN BRUNO MARS’S

SONGS

COMPOSED BY:

ABDUL KARIM AAA 117 019

AGNES AURORA S. AYONG AAA 117 043
APRIANTO FIORENTINO L. AAA 117 062
EPIFANIA ALEXIA AAA 117 001
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M. RIZKI PAHLEVI M. AAA 117 059
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ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM

TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY
UNIVERSITY OF PALANGKA RAYA
2018
 PREFACE

First, we would like to praise the Almighty God who has given His

bless to the writers for finishing this mini research paper assignment entitled

“Analysis of Lexical Meaning And Contextual Meaning In Bruno Mars’s

Songs”

Second, we would like to say thank you for our lovely lecturer, Mrs.

Erma Sujiyani, S.S., M.Pd for her guidance, support, advice, and suggestion

during the writing of this paper assignment.

We realized that this paper assignment is not good enough. But we

hope that it can be useful not only for us but also for others. Critics and

suggestion is needed to help us to make this assignment better in the future.

Palangka Raya, November 6th 2018

The Writers
 TABLE OF CONTENT

PREFACE........................................................................................................
TABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................................

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background.................................................................................................
1.2 Purpose........................................................................................................
1.3 Scope and Limitation…………………………………………………….

CHAPTER II CONTENT
2.1 Songs……………………………………………………………………
2.2 Definition of Lexical Meaning ……………………………………………
2.3 Definition of Contextual meaning……………………………………......
2.4 Analysis of Lexical Meaning and Contextual Meaning………………
2.3.1 Grenade song by Bruno Mars………………………………….

2.3.2 Count on me song by Bruno Mars……………………………..

CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION
3.1 Conclusion………………...........................................................................
3.2 Suggestion………………………………………………………………

REFERENCES………………………………………………………………
 CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter describes the background of the study, the purpose of the study, Scope

and limitation. Each of the items is discussed clearly as follow:

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

The purpose of this mini research is to explain the lexical meanings and contextual

meanings in the Bruno Mars’s song “Grenade” for reader and to explain the lexical meanings

and contextual meanings in the Bruno Mars’s song “Count on Me” for reader

1.3 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

Based on the purpose of the study stated above, the writers specifies about Analysis

of lexical meaning and contextual meaning in two of Bruno Mars’s Songs “Grenade” and “Count

On Me”
 CHAPTER II
CONTENT

2.1 SONGS
 Grenade song lyric
Grenade
By Bruno Mars
Easy come, easy go
That's just how you live
Oh take, take, take it all but you never give
Should've known you was trouble from the first kiss
Had your eyes wide open
Why were they open
Gave you all I had and you tossed it in the trash
You tossed it in the trash, you did
To give me all your love is all I ever ask
'Cause what you don't understand is
I'd catch a grenade for ya (yeah yeah)
Throw my head on a blade for ya (yeah yeah)
I'd jump in front of a train for ya (yeah yeah)
You know I'd do anything for ya (yeah yeah)
Oh whoa oh
I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through my brain
Yes I would die for you baby
But you won't do the same
No no no no
Black, black, black and blue
Beat me {til I'm numb
Tell the devil I said hey when you get back to where you're from
Mad woman, bad woman that's just what you are
Yeah you'll smile in my face then rip the breaks out my car
Gave you all I had and you tossed it in the trash
You tossed it in the trash, you did
To give me all your love is all I ever ask
'Cause what you don't understand is
I'd catch a grenade for ya (yeah yeah)
Throw my head on a blade for ya (yeah yeah)
I'd jump in front of a train for ya (yeah yeah)
You know I'd do anything for ya (yeah yeah)
Oh whoa oh
I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through my brain
Yes I would die for you baby
But you won't do the same
If my body was on fire
Ooh you'd watch me burn down in flames
You said you love me, you're a liar
'Cause you never ever, ever did
But darling I'd still catch a grenade for ya (yeah yeah)
Throw my head on a blade for ya (yeah yeah)
I'd jump in front of a train for ya (yeah yeah)
You know I'd do anything for ya (yeah yeah)
Oh whoa oh
I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through my brain
Yes I would die for you, baby
But you won't do the same
No no no no no
  Count on me song lyric

Count on me
By Bruno Mars

If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea,

I'll sail the world to find you
If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can't see,
I'll be the light to guide you
Find out what we're made of
When we are called to help our friends in need
You can count on me like one two three
I'll be there
And I know when I need it I can count on you like four three two
You'll be there
'Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah
Whoa, whoa
Oh, oh
Yeah, yeah
If you tossin' and you're turnin' and you just can't fall asleep
I'll sing a song
Beside you
And if you ever forget how much you really mean to me
Everyday I will
Remind you
Ooh
Find out what we're made of
When we are called to help our friends in need
You can count on me like one two three
I'll be there
And I know when I need it I can count on you like four three two
You'll be there
'Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah
Oh, oh
Yeah, yeah
You'll always have my shoulder when you cry
I'll never let go
Never say goodbye
You know you can
Count on me like one two three
I'll be there
And I know when I need it I can count on you like four three two
And you'll be there
'Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah
Oh, oh
You can count on me 'cause I can count on you

2.2 DEFINITION OF LEXICAL MEANING

Lexical meaning is the smallest meaning unit in the meaning system of language that could

be distinguished from other similar units. A lexeme is an abstract unit. It can occur in many

different forms of actual spoken or written sentences. It is regarded as the same lexeme even when

inflected.
 According to Harimurti (1982:103) in Mansoer Pateda book said that lexical meaning is

the meaning of the word when the word is seen in isolation, either in form or shape lexeme affixes

whose meaning more or less fixed, as can be read in a particular language dictionary.

Lexical meaning is also smallest meaning unit in the meaning system oflanguage that could

be distinguished from other similar units. A lexeme is an abstract unit. It can be occurring in many

different forms of actual spoken or wrote sentences, and regarded as the same lexeme even when

inflected. Lexical meaning refers to the real meaning, meaning that proper with our sense of

observation, or granted meaning. It has been known that a language has amount of lexical system

by which the semantic with structure could be based its meaning on paradigmatic and systematical.

The researcher said that lexical meaning could be defined as a meaning which has a characteristic

of lexicon, lexeme and word. It also has a meaning as it reference, meaning which is result of our

observation through our sense, or the reality in our life. Not all lexeme were word-lexeme or

lexeme whose forms are words forms. Many of them would be phrasal lexeme whose forms were

phrases.

Therefore, many people who say that the lexical meaning is the meaning in the dictionary

or that of the lexeme meaning even without any contexts. For example, “horses” have similar

lexical meaning ordinary a quadruped ridden. This example, the lexical meaning is the exact

meaning or meanings that accord with the observation of our senses. In the dictionary, usually

contains only lexical meaning possessed by the word described.

2.3 DEFINITION OF CONTEXTUAL MEANING

Contextual meaning is the meaning according to the context. According to Abdul Chaer

(2007:290), Contextual meaning is the meaning of a lexeme or word inside a context. A contextual

definition is also a definition in which the term is used by embedding it in a larger expression

containing its explanation. According to J.R. Firth in 1930 in Daniel Josh Parera book (1990:17),

said:
If we regard language as ‘expressive’ or ‘communicative’ we imply that it is an
instrument of inner mental states. And as we know so little of inner mental states, even
by the most careful introspection the language problem, become more mysterious the
more we try to explain it by referring it to inner mental happenings which are not
observable. By regarding word as acts, events, habits, we limit our inquiry to what is
objective in the group life of our fellows.(Meetham,1969, 499-500)
 In the view of Firth, it could inherit the context of thinking about the situation in the

analysis of meaning. Theory contextual has the meaning of a word tied to the cultural and

ecological environment to use that particular language.This theory also indicates that a word or

symbol utterances have no meaning if it regardless of context.

According to Abdul Chaer (2007:290) contextual meaning is the meaningof a lexeme or

word inside a context. However, the contextual meaning could be regarded to the situation, where

the time, the language usage environment. According Mansoer Petada (116-2001), Contextual

meaning could be regarded as a situational meaning. It arise as a result of the relationship between

speech and context. It took the form of a lot of things. There are some contexts in here is the first

context organs, including those relating to gender, position the

speaker, the speaker or the listener age , socio-economic background speaker or the listener. The

second context of the situation, such a situation is safe or noisy situations. The third context

purposes, such as asking or expecting something. The fourth context of whether or not a formal

conversation. The fifth context of the speaker or the listener’s mood such as afraid, excited, upset

or angry. The sixth time context, for example, night or day. Context seventh place, for example

where at school, at home, in the field, etc. Eighth object context, mean what the focus of the

conversation. Ninth context fittings speak or hear the speaker or the listener. Tenth linguistic

context that does meet the rules of the language used by both sides. Eleventh context of

language,meaning the language used.

2.4 ANLYSIS OF LEXICAL MEANING AND CONTEXTUAL MEANING

2.4.1 Lexical meaning and contextual meaning found in “Grenade” song by Bruno
Mars

2.4.2 Lexical meaning and contextual meaning found in “Count on me” song by
Bruno Mars