6. The Semantic Field of “Medicine”
Table 9: The Componential Analysis fr om Semantic Field of “Medicine”
The Semantic Properties The Lexemes
DRUG TABLET
The science of dealing with the maintenance
of health
and the
prevention and treatment of disease +
+
A substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
+_ _
The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
_ +
The characteristic features of the semantic properties on the table 4 are hypernyms of medicine.
From the explanations of the table drug means the science of dealing with
the maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease, a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic. According to The American Medical
Association Encyclopedia of Medicine drugs include prescribe medicines, over- the-counter remedies, and the recreational, social, and illicit use of drugs, such as
cocaine.
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Many foods and drinks contain small quantities of substances classed as drugs tea, coffee, and cola drinks, for example, all contain caffeine, which is both
a stimulant and diuretic drug.
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79
Ibid , p. 376
80
Ibid ,. p. 376.
Tablet
means the science of dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease, a substance that is used as a medicine or
narcotic, the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques According to The Medicine.net tablet is tablet is In pharmacy, a
medication, usually mixed with a binder powder, molded and pressed into the form of a tablet, traditionally circular or disk-shaped, but more recently also
oblong or differently shaped. From the French tablets, little table .
From the table explained that there are no lexemes which have a close meaning because there is no similar component on each other.
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CHAPTER IV CONCLUSIONS AND SUGESTIONS
A. Conclusions
Semantic field is a group of words that are related because they are from the same area of knowledge or interest. In the study of it, lexicon is the focus
of the study. This study states that lexicon in every language is all lexemes words system which related in meaning, and can be restructured as phoneme
in grammatical study and a lexeme is an abstract unit of morphological analysis in linguistics, that roughly corresponds to a set of words that are
different forms of the same word. The research data are lexemes in the semantic field in the health text of
The Global Health and Travel Magazine. The data are analyzed by using the componential theory a basic study of lexical field in determining semantics
relations of different lexical components in one lexical field. It also can be used to define the sense of lexical items in dictionary making. The sense of a
lexical item is the composition of semantic components. Such composition of semantic components can be analyzed into its component part. The theory is
used to identity components of meaning containing simultaneous semantic reaction. Po
sitive semantic reaction + means “presence of or yes”, negative semantic reaction -
means “absence of or not”, positivenegative semantic reaction +-
means that a componential both, „can be yes‟ or „can be not at all‟.
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