Senin, 26 Oktober 2015

Word Meaning 1, Meaning Postulate (Semantics)

WORD MEANING 1

About Dictionary

v  A dictionary is a central part of the description of any language.
v  A good ordinary household dictionary typically gives (at least) three kinds of information about word:
a.         Phonological information about how the word is pronounced.
b.        Grammatical information about its part of speech (e.g. noun, verb)
c.         Inflection (e.g. for plural or past tense)
v  A dictionary tells you what words means.
v  The semantics dictionary writer’s main interest is the sense relations between predicates.
v  Makna kata dalam sebuah bahasa saling berhubungan. Hubungan inilah yang disebut relasi makna (sense relation).
v  Sense relation:
a.         Homonymy is the words that have same phonetics form but different meaning.
         e.g. Tale & Tail
There are two kinds of Homonymy:
a.         Homograph is the word that has same writing but different meaning.
         e.g. well (baik) & well (sumur)
         bank (financial institution) & bank (riverside)
b.        Homphony is the word that has the same pronunciation but different meaning & written form.
              e.g.         night (malam) & knight (ksatria)
              would & wood
              meat & meet
              right & write
c.         Hyponymy is a relation between two words in which the meaning of one of the words includes the meaning of the other word.
       (Hubungan antara kata yang umum dengan kata yang lebih khusus)
       e.g. There is a horse à There is an animal.
                   d.     Polysemy is a word having two or more meaning.
       Matthew à sebuah kata yang mempunyai dua relasi makna/lebih (maknanya saling berkaitan).
       e.g. cinema screen, television screen.

v  Differences between Polysemy & Homonymy
a.    Jika kata tersebut polisemi, maknanya diikutkan secara berturut-turut.
      e.g. kepala (1) = bagian tubuh dari leher ke atas
            kepala (2) = bagian suatu yang terletak di atas
            kepala (3) = pemimpin atau ketua
è  Badan à badan usaha, badan hokum, badan pengawas
è  Kepala à kepala surat, kepala sekolah
è  Mata à mata pelajaran, mata air, mata angin
b.   Sedangkan jika tergolong homonym, kata tersebut diberi tempat yang masing-masing terpisah.
      e.g. bank (1) = financial institution
            bank (2) = riverside
è  I’ll meet you in the bank, in front of the automated teller machine.
è  I’ll meet you in the bank, we can go swimming.

Meaning Postulates

v  Meaning Postulate is a formula expressing some aspect of the sense of a predicate.
v  It can be read as a proposition necessarily true by virtue of the meaning of the particular predicates involved.
v  Postulate is something accepted as truth and used as the basic for an argument or theory.
v  Postulate is defined as to claim, demand or assert something as truth.
e.g.      MAN (1)        One-place
                                    synonym of HUMAN BEING
            MAN (2)        One-place
                                    Hyponym of MALE
                                    Hyponym of ADULT
                                    Hyponym of HUMAN BEING
            WOMAN       One-place
                                    Hyponym of FEMALE
                                    Hyponym of ADULT
                                    Hyponym of HUMAN BEING




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