A. The Song Lyrics
Listen it
We’re the animal sea
Check it out
The seaweed is always greener
In somebody else's lake
You dream about going up there
But that is a big mistake
Just look at the world around you
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things surround you
What more is you lookin' for?
Under the sea (2x)
Darling it's better
Down where it's wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin'
Full time to floatin'
Under the sea
Down here all the fish are happy
As off through the waves they roll
The fish on the land ain't happy
Being the slave of the chef
And chef has been prepared the cooking and dining set
They sad 'cause they’re in their bowl
But fish in the bowl is lucky
They in for a worser fate
One day when the boss get hungry
Guess who's gonna be on the plate
Under the sea (2x)
Nobody beat us
Fry us and eat us
In fricassee
We what the land folks loves to cook
Under the sea we off the hook
We got no troubles (difficult situation, worry)
We got no problems
Life is the bubbles
Under the sea
Under the sea
Since life is sweet here
We got the beat here
Naturally
Even the sturgeon an' the ray
They get the urge 'n' start to play
We got the spirit
You got to hear it
Under the sea
Oh, yeah…prepare your musical instrument!
The newt play the flute
The carp play the harp
The plaice play the bass
And they soundin' sharp
The bass play the brass
The chub play the tuba
The fluke is the duke of soul
(Yeah)
The ray he can play
The lings on the strings
The trout rockin' out
The blackfish she sings
The smelt and the sprat
They know where it's at
An' oh that blowfish blow
Under the sea (2x)
When the sardine
Begin the beguine
It's music to me
What do they got? Too lot of sand
we got a hot crustacean band
Each little clam here
know how to jam here
Under the sea
Each little slug here
Cuttin' a rug here
Under the sea
Each little snail here
Know how to wail here
That's why it's too hot
Under the water
Ya we in luck here
Down in the muck here
Under the sea
B. The Analysis
1. Denotation
Denotation is the meaning of word which is primarily refers to the real world and this is often the definition that is given in dictionary.
2. Connotation
Connotation arise as words become related with certain characteristic of item to which they refer, or the association of positive or negative feelings to which they evokes, which may or may not be indicated in the dictionary definition. The positive connotation in the lyrics is ‘muck’, in the lyric ‘Down in the muck here’, the dictionary definition of ‘muck’is ‘the condition that is unpleasant’, but here the meaning of ‘muck’ is the condition which even live under the sea with all creatures there is very noisy but it makes them happy because they always have fun together.
3. Ambiguity
A word or a sentence is ambiguous if it can be undrstood or interpreted in more than one way (Fromkin et.al, 1990). The different words having same form or pronunciation may cause ambiguity among listeners or readers who do not pay attention to their context carefully. Among the different words having same form or pronunciation are:
a. Homonyms (different words having same form)
· slave ( a person who is legally owned by another person)
slave (work very hard)
· bass (an electric guitar that plays very low note)
bass ( a sea or freshwater fish that is used for food)
· slave ( a person who is legally owned by another person)
slave (work very hard)
· bass (an electric guitar that plays very low note)
bass ( a sea or freshwater fish that is used for food)
b. Homophones (different word which are pronounced the same)
· To (used before the base form of a verb to show that the verb is the infinitive. The infinitive is used after many verbs and also many nouns and adjectives)
Too (used before adjectives and adverbs to say that sth is more that is good, necessary, possible)
4. Antonym
The word antonym derives from the Greek root anti- (‘opposite’) and denotes oposition in meaning. In contrast to synonymy and hyponymy, antonymy is a binary relationship that can characterize a relationship between only two words at a time. Terms A and B are antonyms if, when A describes a referent, B cannot describe the same referent, and vice versa. The antonyms found in this song lyrics are:
· happy (feeling or showing pleasure) >< sad (uhappy or showing unhappiness)
· up (moving upwards) >< down (to force something down)
· land (the surface of the earth that is not sea) >< sea (the salt water that covers most of the earth’s surface and surrounds its continents and island)
5. Synonym
Two words are said to be synonymous if they mean the same thing. To addres the notion of synonymy more formally, we can say that term A is synonymous with term B if every referrent of A is a referent of B and vice versa. The synonyms found in this song lyrics are:
· listen = hear (to be away of sounds by your ears or to pay attention to somebody/something that you can hear)
· ocean = sea (the mass of salt water that covers most of the earth’s surface and surrounds its continents and island)
· troubles = problems (difficult situation, worry)
· slug = snail (a small soft creature, with or without a hard round shell on its back, that moves very slowly and often eats garden plants )
6. Hyponymy
A hyponym is a subordinate, specific term whose referent is included in the referent of a superordinate term and the relationship between each of the lower term (hyponym) and the higher term (superordinate) is called hyponymy.
· cook (to prepare food by heating it, for example by boliling, baking or frying it) is superordinate of fry (to cook something in hot fat or oil)
· fish is superordinate of :
a. sturgeon (a large sea and freshwater fish that lives in nothern region . Strurgeon are used for foods and the eggs (called caviar) are also eaten)
b. ray ( a seafish with a large broad flat body and long tail that is used for food)
c. carp (a large freshwater fish that is used for the food)
d. plaice ( a flat sea fish that is used for food)
e. bass ( a sea or freshwater fish that is used for food)
f. chub (a freshwater fish with athick body)
g. fluke (a flat fish)
h. ray ( a sea fish with a large broad flat body and long tail that is used for food)
i. trout (a common freshwater fish that is used for food. There are several types of trout: rainbow trout, trour fishing)
j. blackfish (a fish in a black coloured)
k. smelt (a small fish bait)
l. blowfish
n. sprat (a very small European sea fish that is used for food)
o. sardine (a small young sea fish that is either eaten fresh or preserved in tins/cans)
· animal is superordinate of:
a. fish (sturgeon, ray, carp, plaice, bass, chub, fluke, ray, trout, blackfish, smelt blowfish, sprat, sardine)
b. crustacean (any creature with a soft body that is divided into sections, and a hard outer shell. Most crustaceans live in water)
c. clam (a shellfish that can be eaten. It has a shell in two parts that can open and close)
d. slug (a small soft creature, a snail with without a shell, that moves very slowly and often eats garden plants )
e. snail (a small soft creature with a hard round shell on its back, that moves very slowly and often eats garden plants)
f. newt (a small animal with short legs, a long tail and a cold blood, that lives both in water and on land)
· dining set is superordinate of:
a. bowl (a deep round dish with a wide open top, used specially for holding food or liquid)
b. plate (a flat, usually round, dish that you put on)
· musical instrument is superordinate of:
a. flute ( a musical instrument of the wood-wind group shaped like a tin pipe. The player holds it sideways and blows across a hole at one end)
b. bass (an electric guitar that plays very low note)
c. harp (a large musical instrument with strings streched on vertical frame, played with the fingers)
d. brass (the musical instrument made of metals, such as trumpets or french horns, that form a band or section of an orchestra)
e. tuba ( a large brass musical instrument that you play by blowing, and that produces low notes)
7. Polysemy
Polysemy (or multiple meaning) is a property of single lexemes; and this is what differentiates it, in principles, from homonymy.
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