Abstract

This paper aims at investigating the meaning of verb form ‘cook’ having one form withdifferent manners of cooking something. Therefore, the analysis discusses about the variouscooking manners in verb forms because cooking is an action or do something. The data wastaken from the article about cooking procedure, by note taking technique. The data wasfurther analyzed by natural semantics metalanguage. The result showed that verbs in cookingaction have some similar meaning with different manners such as the manner cooking ofblanch means cooking food into boiling water in a few minutes, while the manner cookingof steam means cooking food on the boiled water. Here, metalanguage manages to describeand analyze the verb meaning in cooking manners.

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