Motion verbs related to Javanese traditional fishing activities: a natural semantic metalanguage approach
| Title: | Motion verbs related to Javanese traditional fishing activities: a natural semantic metalanguage approach |
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| Authors: | Agus Subiyanto, Nurhayati Nurhayati, M. Suryadi, Peter Suwarno |
| Source: | Cogent Arts & Humanities, Vol 11, Iss 1 (2024) |
| Publisher Information: | Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. |
| Publication Year: | 2024 |
| Collection: | LCC:Fine Arts LCC:Arts in general LCC:General Works LCC:History of scholarship and learning. The humanities |
| Subject Terms: | Motion, verbs, Javanese, fishermen, natural semantic metalanguage, Jeroen van de Weijer, College of International Studies, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, Fine Arts, Arts in general, NX1-820, General Works, History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, AZ20-999 |
| More Details: | Javanese fishermen use motion verbs, some of which are semantically very complex as a single lexical item can encode more than four semantic components. Compared to motion verbs across languages, which commonly contain two semantic components, the motion verbs used by the fishermen are more complex, and this raises the question of how to disentangle the components to accurately describe the verbs. This article aims to discuss the motion verbs used by the fishermen and how these verbs are decomposed into their semantic elements. The theory used in this study is the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM), a theory of semantics pioneered by Anna Wierzbicka. This study used data from fishermen living in Semarang, Demak and Kendal, representing areas of Central Java, Indonesia. The data were collected through observation and interview methods and analyzed using the NSM model of explication. The result shows that motion verbs used by the fishermen can be classified into the verbs expressing ‘going to the sea’, ‘coming back home from the sea’ and ‘motion activities on the sea’. Some of the verbs contain five to seven semantic elements, covering MOTION, FIGURE, PATH, GROUND, MANNER, MEDIUM and GOAL. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 23311983 2331-1983 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/2331-1983 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23311983.2024.2338979 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/1ed5a921c26a41e982852a69e09ecf7e |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.1ed5a921c26a41e982852a69e09ecf7e |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 23311983 |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/23311983.2024.2338979 |
| Published in: | Cogent Arts & Humanities |
| Language: | English |