The Semantic Field of Triste Adjectives in French

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200325.050How to use a DOI?

Keywords

components of meaning, intrinsic features, sad emotion, semantic field, triste

Abstract

Adjectives describe quantity, adequacy, sequence, order, quality, and word emphasis. Thus, the selection of the proper adjective must begin by finding the criteria which accord with the semantic aspects. In French, adjectives with triste ‘sad’ as the superordinate also have various hyponyms such as affligeant and chagrin. This study examined the similarities and differences in the adjective-meaning triste in French, so that learners can use the right words in their expressions of sadness. Qualitatively, the data were taken from the French-Indonesian bilingual dictionary by Lefort and Fatmawati (2016) with reference to Le Robert de Poche Plus and were analyzed with the theories of Lehrer semantic field, Nida’s (1979) semantic components analysis, and Santangelo’s (1995) emotion. The findings showed that, from 21 adjectives describing triste in the bilingual dictionary, it was found that there was a great diversity of sad adjectives containing their features and causal factors accompanying a kind of sadness, such as disappointment, sorrow, suffer. Some vocabularies were also used for certain situations, i.e., economic factors, moods, loss.

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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/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Alyza Kemala Ramadhani
AU  - Myrna Laksman-Huntley
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/31
TI  - The Semantic Field of Triste Adjectives in French
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 41
EP  - 45
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200325.050
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200325.050
ID  - Ramadhani2020
ER  -