The Use of the Indonesian Word ‘Akan’ in Literary Work Across Three Centuries
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.200325.087How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- language development, corpus, akan
- Abstract
According to Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (The Indonesian Dictionary), the word akan may act as either an adverb that indicates things or actions taking place in the future or a preposition that relates verbs with any class of words. Commonly, the word akan in Indonesian language is directly translated into modal will in English. However, it may also share a similar meaning as about/regarding/towards in English depending on the context of the text. As Indonesian speakers realize the two different meanings of the word akan, this paper aims to investigate the development of the word in three periods of time. The data used in this paper are Hikayat Hang Tuah, Siti Nurbaya, and Aku, Kau, dan Sepucuk Angpau Merah which represent texts published in the 19th, 20th, and 21st century, respectively. By using a corpus linguistics software to help with the analysis, the result shows that the word akan always appears as an adverb from the 19th until 21st century. Meanwhile, it appeared as a preposition only in the 19th and 20th century. In other words, the word akan is only used as a modal word among Indonesian speakers in the 21st century. Besides, the preposition akan is used not only to mark a relationship of a direction of destination but also a relationship of things or problems.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Shara Monarizka PY - 2020 DA - 2020/03/31 TI - The Use of the Indonesian Word ‘Akan’ in Literary Work Across Three Centuries BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 231 EP - 235 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200325.087 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200325.087 ID - Monarizka2020 ER -