THEMATIC RELATIONS AND TRANSLATION QUALITY IN CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS: ANALYZING DEAD BY APRIL'S METALCORE LYRICS ON MUSIXMATCH

Abstract

Musixmatch serves as a versatile platform, offering extensive services for translating song lyrics from one language to another, thereby making lyrics accessible to a global audience. Musixmatch is criticized for its inability to preserve the integrity and intended meaning of the original lyrics. This thesis explores the metaphor found in Dead by April Albums within Musixmatch application to investigate thematical relations structure and the types of conceptual metaphor to find the actual meaning from English to Indonesian translations. The research methodology used is descriptive-qualitative, utilizing linguistic phenomena as data, which is a metaphor. The album “Dead by April”, which consists of 13 songs, “Incomparable” which consists of 13 songs, and “Let the World Know”, which consists of 15 songs serve as the data sources. Data collection involves content analysis and focus group discussions (FGD)as an analysis. The data are analyzed in four stages: domain, taxonomy, componential, and cultural themes. The key findings of the study reveal a total of 101 conceptual metaphors identified in the albums within Musixmatch. The most frequent structure are Agent-Patient relation, followed by the most frequent type of conceptual metaphor, which is structural. Understanding the structure and the types of conceptual metaphors is essential to comprehending the role and the actual meaning of song lyrics within the application, specifically Musixmatch. The study serves as a valuable resource for those interested in song/metaphor translation and invites further research in the field.