Kamis, 21 Juli 2016

Conceptual Methaphor of Love on Twitter #cintaadalah

Conceptual Metaphor is one of many interesting subjects in Psycholinguistics. It explores connection between what is in human mind and how human utters it through words. The choices of words can be the path to penetrate the meaning beyond the words. This research aims to discuss and find what human thinks of love. Through a limited space provided by Twitter, which contains only 140 characters, humans...

Selasa, 19 Juli 2016

MBOK: ITS DISTRIBUTION, MEANING, AND FUNCTION

Mbok, in Javanese language, has not only a ’mother’ in meaning. As a lexicon in the language, mbok in one side truly means a ‘mother’ and still has the same meaning although it experiences the morphological process to be, at least, embok, simbok, or mboke. The variations exist and are spoken by Javanese native speakers throughout the Javanese dialects such as Suroboyoan, Solo, Yogyakarta, Bagelen,...