Metaphors in Lany’s Song Lyrics in Mama’s Boy Album

Abstract

This article is entitled Metaphors in LANY’s Song Lyrics in Mama’s Boy Album. The objectives of this study are to find out types of metaphorical expression in LANY’s Mama’s Boy album and to find out the meaning of metaphors in LANY’s Mama’s Boy album. Therefore, this study applies Geoffrey Leech (1981) and Andrew Goatly (1997) to analyze the meaning of metaphors types of the metaphor in LANY’s album Mama’s Boy. The authors found there are three types of meaning and five types of metaphor in LANY’s album Mama’s Boy song lyrics. Such as sixteen Connotative Meaning, as the dominant Meaning, one Associative Meaning, and one Thematic Meaning. Twelve Symbolism Metaphor, as the dominant metaphor that the authors found, three Active Metaphor, five Inactive Metaphor, five Subjective Metaphor, one Phenomenalistic Metaphor, one Mimetic Metaphor, and seven Approximate Metaphor, which those metaphors that taken from LANY’s album Mama’s Boy that consist 14 song lyrics. However, Conceptual Meaning, Social and Affective Meaning, Reflected Meaning, Collocative Meaning and Precision Metaphor cannot be found in LANY’s album Mama’s Boy. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method.