Acronym and Abbreviation Word Formation Process a. Affixation
Table 3. Semantic Features Table
Horse Boy
Man Girl
Woman Animate
+
+ +
+ +
+ Human
- +
+ +
+ +
Female -
- -
- +
+ Adult
- -
- +
- +
There are four types procedures to analyze in componential analysis are naming, paraphrasing, defining and classifying. The first
process, naming is similar to reference but there is different perspective. Naming is the specific act of designating such a referent. In naming
process the procedural steps number 2 and 5 are relevant to do the analysis.
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Second, paraphrasing is process of explaining a distinctive feature of a word. For example, uncle can be defined as my father’s brother or my
mother’s brother.
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It means that paraphrase is a process of describing or explaining a word for getting a meaning.
Third, defining is simply another form of paraphrase. Defining combines the appropriate referents of paraphrase to be a single statement
that related to the referent in question.
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Last, classifying is process of relating some words in similar feature to get a meaning for such group.
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Eugene A. Nida. Componential Analysis of Meaning. London: University Press, 1979, p.64-65.
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Ibid.p.65
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Ibid. p.65.
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Ibid. p.66.