The Analysis of Sense Relations on Maroon 5 Album V (Deluxe Version)

Abstract

The aim of this study is analysing the sense relations realized in the album. In doing this study the writers employ descriptive qualitative method. Meanwhile, the data of this study are taken from the song lyrics of album V (Deluxe Version) by Maroon 5. The writers use sense relations theory of Hurford and Heasley (1986) to identify whether they are synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, homonymy, and polysemy. The result shows that the writers find 34 cases of sense relations in the album. There are 4 types found consisting of 12 cases of synonymy (35,29%), 13 cases of antonymy (38,23%), 6 cases of hyponymy (17,64%), 3 cases of homonymy (8,82%), and 0 case of polysemy (0%). Therefore, the most dominant type of sense relations is antonymy.