Abstract
This study is aimed to see the use of distribution of the English synonymous noun “Idea”, finding the meanings of each word as well as explaining the semantic features in each synonymous word. The English synonymous nouns “Idea” are belief, notion, opinion, plan, and thought. The related data were collected from COCA using Corpus method with a concordance technique. Meanwhile, qualitative and quantitative method was used to analyze the data. The result of the analysis shows that Idea is most frequently used, then followed by plan, thought, opinion, belief, and notion. In terms of the semantic features, there are ten features on content; they are: suggestion, strong feeling, confidence/trust, assumption, impression, not a fact, judgment, detail, arrangement, and politics. In the circumstance point of view, there are three features, they are formal, common, and suddenly. Furthermore, in the reason there are 4 features, which are something/someone that has been highly trusted, uncertain and there are many options, something without doubt and well planned, and need a clear or scientific explanation.
Highlights
Background of the StudyLanguage is one of the most important part of human life, because with language we can be able to have communications with other people
In case, when the informer talked about something using a synonymous word to the receiver, the receiver often misunderstand the meaning of what informer is talking about, that is, why he or she should understand clearly the meaning of the English word idea
The semantic features were identified by looking at the definition of each synonym of the English noun “Idea” and the componential analysis
Summary
The data in this study are nouns containing the basic meaning of “Idea”. They were taken from The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). 160,000 texts, including 20 million words each year from 1990 to 2015. There are many sources in corpus, such as fiction, magazine, newspaper, and academic words. Corpus is one of the largest currently available corpora, and is the only publicly available corpus of American English to contain a wide array of texts from a number of genres
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