Mental Predicate Feel Subtype Feel and Think in Japanese: A Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach

I Made Netra,Luh Putu Ratnayanti Sukma

doi:10.24843/e-jl.2019.v13.i02.p15

Abstract

According to Goddard and Wierzbicka (2014) the original meaning of the mental predicate consists of six types namely, think, know, feel, see, hear, want and don't want. This finding was then forwarded to Japanese by Asano Cavanagh (2015), finding 12 verbs of Japanese language conditions that are matched with those found by Goddard and Wierzbicka (2014). Of the twelve state verbs that were passed on by Asano, the type FEEL was matched with the mental predicate ???kanjiru. Mental predicate???kanjiru has a subtype which turns out to produce more mental predicate than the other six types. Found subtypes FEEL and THINK, FEEL and HAPPEN, FEEL and DO, FEEL and TELL. Subtype FEEL and THINK produces 2 sub-subtypes namely FEEL and THINK (GOOD) and FEEL and THINK (BAD). Keywords: mental predicate, feel, type, subtype

Highlights

Verbs in Japanese have different characteristics from Indonesian verbs
3.1 Subtypes FEEL and THINK (GOOD) The combination of components feels with something or a good event, which occurs in verbs in the Japanese language expressed by the lexicon: 楽しむ tanoshimu ’senang’, 安心する
In exploring the meaning associated with this combination of polysemics, there are two orientations that become references to events in the mind expressed by the meaning of 'happy', namely: (1) Current events which characterize that a person feels something good about himself

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Introduction

Verbs in Japanese have different characteristics from Indonesian verbs. Like what was presented by Dewi Merlyna (2019) Japan is a country with a high politeness level. Standard politeness in Japanese sentences is influenced by the verb used and to whom the sentence is intended. This is the case with the use of verbs in Japanese. Verbs in Japanese have a level of politeness in the use of verbs. Natural semantic metalanguage approach are used to analysis the equivalent of a word, so as to find other words that are the same as the topic

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