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Selasa, 17 Mei 2016

A Piece of Linguistics : Semantics

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Assalamu'alaikum wr. wb. Meet again with a new post hehehe. Here, I want to share a new knowledge for you guys called Semantics. Yaa, masih lingkungan Linguistics juga. Okay guys, check it out !!


The study of the linguistic meaning of morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences is called semantics. Kajiannya berada pada struktur batiniah (deep structure). According to Muljana (1965:11), semantics is a branch of linguistics that focus on word meaning, asal-usul kata, word development, and cause of word changing.
In semantics, we can see it from two perspectives, they are from the speaker and from linguistic. Let’see !!!

A.   Sense

a.  Speaker-sense, is the speaker intention in producing some linguistic expression. It is related to non-literal meaning and implied or pragmatic meaning.

b.  Linguistic-sense, is the literal meaning of a linguistics expression as a part of  language. There are various types of linguistics sense that are possible among words, some of them are :

1.       Polysemy
Polysemy is a condition when there are some words which have more than one sense or a range of meanings (many meanings). Example :
In English :
Book -> dapat bermakna buku atau bisa juga memesan.
In Bahasa :
Bisa -> dapat bermakna bisa, dapat atau bermakna racun.

2.       Synonymy
A condition when some words have the same sense or values for all their semantic features. Singkatnya, synonymy itu memiliki bentuk berbeda but have same meaning. Example :
Friend = buddy = pal

3.       Hyponymy and Hypernymy
Hyponymy is nama/bentuk yang berada di bawah bentuk lain. Sedangkan, hypernymy berada di atas  (membawahi bentuk lain). For example :





4.       Antonymy
Antonymy is a relationship between words indicates oppositeness of meaning. Jadi, antonymy itu merupakan lawan kata. Examples :
Happy -> Sad
Dilligent -> Lazy

B.   Types of Meaning

a.     Dennotative Meaning
In Bahasa, denotative means makna yang sebenarnya. Example :
Kursi -> Tempat duduk
Flower -> sesuatu yang muncul dari tanaman

b.    Connotative Meaning
Connotation means makna tidak sebenarnya from a word. Usually in Bahasa, we can found it from poetry. Example :
Bunga (Flower) -> Gadis cantik
Kursi -> Jabatan

References
Baskaran, Loga Mahesan. 2005. A Linguistic Primer for Malaysians. Kuala Lumpur : University Malaya Press.

Chaer, Abdul. Linguistik Umum. (pdf)


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Wassalamu'alaikum. wr. wb

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