An Analysis of Japanese Verb Tomeru as Polysemy
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.200325.090How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Japanese, meaning, polysemy, tomeru
- Abstract
This study attempts to investigate the basic meaning of verb tomeru, and the meaning of the variant expansion of tomeru, and the relationship between those meanings. The study was conducted using a descriptive method. The data were collected from Japanese novels published in the 2000s and online newspapers in Japanese. The data collected were arranged and classified. The findings showed that the basic meaning of the verb tomeru is to stop, whereas the meaning of the expansion of the verb tomeru is to remove (stopping the pain), to hold (holding the cough), to prohibit (no entry), to prevent (prevent the departure), to pin (pin with needle), to nail (nailing with a safety pin onto the shirt), to note (recorded in memory), to stay (a one-night stay), and to give shelter (I was given a place to stay at home uncle). The relationship between those meanings can be described using two figurative languages: metaphors and metonyms. The use of these two figurative languages is part of cognitive linguistics. In this study, which was expanded metaphorically is the meaning of ‘holding the cough’, ‘no entry’, ‘a one-night stay’, and ‘I was given a place to stay at home uncle’. Meaning that expanded metonymically is the meaning of ‘stopping the pain’, ‘prevent the departure’, ‘pin with needle’, ‘nailing with a safety pin onto the shirt’, and ‘recorded in memory’. Meanwhile, the meaning of synecdoche is not found.
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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 - Tranika Rahma AU - Dewi Kusrini AU - Ahmad Dahidi PY - 2020 DA - 2020/03/31 TI - An Analysis of Japanese Verb Tomeru as Polysemy BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 248 EP - 251 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200325.090 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200325.090 ID - Rahma2020 ER -