A Semantic Analysis on Bali United Chants

Semantics is the study of meaning. The semantics study explains how meaning works in language. Semantics is one of linguistics elements, and deals with meaning and interpretation of the words, sentence structure, and symbols. It also deals with readers when improve their reading comprehension , in how they understand interpretation and others. In semantic, we study the meaning systematically and how language organize and express meaning [6]. The problems of this study are : (1) what are the lexical meaning in the Bali United chants? (2) What are contextual meaning in the Bali United chant. The researcher takes five popular chants of Bali United fans. This study used descriptive a method of descriptive qualitative which means the researcher analyzed and interpreted the research object of Bali United chants.[2] [11] There some steps in obtaining the data, first collecting the data sources from Bali United chants. Then, the researcher selects the chants which contain semantic elements, after that read and listened to the lyrics to get an understanding the content and meaning of the chants. Next, the researcher conducted and analyze the data collection and make conclusion. The findings of this study are : (1) lexical meaning on the Bali United chants (2) contextual meaning on the Bali United chants. The researcher expected that this study will give some benefits for the other researcher who are interested to study more about semantic.