A Semantic Analysis on Personification in Cocomelon Nursery Rhymes
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2022-04-04
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This study is entitled A Semantic Analysis on Personification in Cocomelon Nursery Rhymes. It conducted to identify and describe the kinds, purposes, and semantic meaning of personification in nursery rhymes. This study uses qualitative methods, this study focuses on the lyrics of nursery rhymes that contain personification from Cocomelon Nursery Youtube Channel. Related to the theory, this study applies the theory about kinds and purposes of personification which was refined by Dodson (2008) and the kinds of meaning in semantics by Leech (1983). The writer observed the lyrics of nursery rhymes which contained personification. The result of this study revealed there are two kinds of personifications found in 18 nursery rhymes. It concludes that the most personification used in nursery rhymes is general personification with the purpose to understand things, so the nursery rhymes lyrics use personification to describe things like humans to make it easier to be understood by children and all kinds of personification found in nursery rhymes have connotative meaning that has other additional meanings from its conceptual meaning.
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Semantic, Personification, Nursery Rhymes