Natural Semantic Metalanguage
SEMANTICS
“Natural Semantic Metalanguage”
Group members:
Awliya Rahmi ( 0810731006 )
Citra Ayu Wardani ( 0810732056 )
Wingky Septia ( 0810732048 )
Nurfitria Sari ( 0810731014 )
Rini Anggraini
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LETTERS
ANDALAS UNIVERSITY
PADANG
2010
INTRODUCTION
Using language iss not just about knowledge of the words but also what they mean in cross-cultural communication. Natural Semantic Metalnguage is a language which is used to describe other language. In spite of that, it may be used to describe not only other languages in general, but also themselves. It can be defined as kinds of semantic analysis approach in finding the simplest meaning of a word.
This approach states that there are many aspects influence language and they can not be separated in analyzing the simplest meaning of words. Those aspects are:
1. The difference of social communities
2. The systematical difference
3. The difference of culture
4. The different style of speaking and communication
Natural Semantic Metalanguage
Before we go further, we should understand the definition of the word “metalanguage” since it might be new for some of us. Metalanguage is the language that is used to present, name and describe terminological information, the language of a particular field name in an entry, e,g. "synonym" is the English name of the data field, that contains synonyms to main entry terms. To make it simpler, metalanguage is a language that can be used to describe languages. Then, we already know that semantic is the study of meaning in language. So, semantic metalanguage is theory and a practical, meaning-based approach to linguistic analysis. The leading proponents of the theory are Anna Wierzbicka at the Australian National University who originated the theory in the early 1970s (Wierzbicka 1972), and Cliff Goddard at Australia 'sUniversity of New England (Goddard & Wierzbicka 1994, 2002). It is
“Natural Semantic Metalanguage”
Group members:
Awliya Rahmi ( 0810731006 )
Citra Ayu Wardani ( 0810732056 )
Wingky Septia ( 0810732048 )
Nurfitria Sari ( 0810731014 )
Rini Anggraini
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LETTERS
ANDALAS UNIVERSITY
PADANG
2010
INTRODUCTION
Using language iss not just about knowledge of the words but also what they mean in cross-cultural communication. Natural Semantic Metalnguage is a language which is used to describe other language. In spite of that, it may be used to describe not only other languages in general, but also themselves. It can be defined as kinds of semantic analysis approach in finding the simplest meaning of a word.
This approach states that there are many aspects influence language and they can not be separated in analyzing the simplest meaning of words. Those aspects are:
1. The difference of social communities
2. The systematical difference
3. The difference of culture
4. The different style of speaking and communication
Natural Semantic Metalanguage
Before we go further, we should understand the definition of the word “metalanguage” since it might be new for some of us. Metalanguage is the language that is used to present, name and describe terminological information, the language of a particular field name in an entry, e,g. "synonym" is the English name of the data field, that contains synonyms to main entry terms. To make it simpler, metalanguage is a language that can be used to describe languages. Then, we already know that semantic is the study of meaning in language. So, semantic metalanguage is theory and a practical, meaning-based approach to linguistic analysis. The leading proponents of the theory are Anna Wierzbicka at the Australian National University who originated the theory in the early 1970s (Wierzbicka 1972), and Cliff Goddard at Australia 'sUniversity of New England (Goddard & Wierzbicka 1994, 2002). It is
References: Lyin, John. 1995. Linguistic Semantics. Cambridge University Press. Wierzbicka, Anna. 1991. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.