PERANAN PROTOTIPE DALAM PENDEFINISIAN KONSEP ABSTRAK “ MARAH” DAN “BENCI”

Didi Sukyadi(1*)

(1) 
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract

In Indonesian Great Dictionary, both of the words “angry” and “hate” are more or less defined as something uneasy. This definition has actually aroused over- whelming question for in daily use the two words seem to be different. How differ- ent they are can be answered by using the reference of prototype theory which will be applied on the abstract concept for the characteristics of the two words. In this study, the respondents are 42 students of the eight semester of English Depart- ment, UPI. They are presented with open questions to identify the kinds of proto- type and its cognitive model. In addition, they are expected to evaluate the best attribute for the words angry and hate. The result shows that the word “angry” can be physiologically and psychologically identified, while another word, “hate” can only be psychologically identified. Moreover, there is family relateness in their cognitive model. This fact influences the implicit meaning of the two words in the current dictionary.

 

Key words: prototype theory, cognitive model, dan konsep abstrak.

References

Depdikbud RI. 1989. Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia. Jakarta: Balai Pustaka.

Harnad, Stevan . 1995. Rosch: Categorization. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/ Foundations. Cognition/0059.html

Kellerman, E. 1978. Giving Learners a Break: Native Language Intuitions as a Source of Pre- diction About Transferability: Working Papers in Bilingualism, 15: 59-92.

Labov, William. 1973. The Boundaries of Words and Their Meaning. In Hatch and Brown

(1993). Core Meaning and Prototype Theory. ASA 125 Meeting Ottawa 1993 May. Philip, G. 2000. Color Metaphors. ([email protected]).

Rosch, E. 1995. Principles of Categorization. ([email protected]).

Rudzka-Ostyn, B. 1988. Topics in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John

Benjamins Publishing Company.

Samuel, A.G. (1982). Phonetic Prototypes. Perception and Psychophysics, 31, 307-314. Sussman, Joan E. 1993. A Preliminary Test of Prototype Theory for a (ba) to (da) Con-

tinuum. ASA 125 Meeting Ottawa 1993 May.

Taylor, John. 1998. Syntactic Constructions as Prototype Categories. In Tomasello

(1998b:177-202).

Taylor, J. R. 1995. Linguistics Categorization: Prototypes in Linguistics Theory. United

States: Oxford University Press

Tomasello, Michael. 1998. The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and functional approaches to language structure. Mahwah, NJ: Laurence Erlbaum.

Ungerer, F. & Schmid, H.J. 1996. An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. England: Addison

Wesley Longman Limited

Article Metrics

Abstract view(s): 688 time(s)
PDF (Bahasa Indonesia): 470 time(s)

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Bookmark and Share