of noun vocabularies between British and American English words and categorized them in each fields such as clothing, building, street objects, sport,
food, vehicle, home appliances, occupation and parts of car. There are some examples in the table below:
Table 3. Differences between British and American English noun vocabularies
No British
English No
American English
Meaning
1CB Trousers
1CA Pants
a piece of clothing for your legs and the lower part of your body
2BB Shop
2BA Store
a building where you buy things 3SOB Pavements
3SOA Sidewalk a flat part at the side of a road
for people to walk on 4FB
Biscuit 4FA
Cookie a kind of small thin hard cake
that is usually sweet 5VB
Lorry 5VA
Truck a big vehicle for carrying heavy
things
The letter ‘C’ stand of the word clothes, letter ‘B’ for Building, letter ‘S and O’ for Street Object, ‘F’ for Food, and ‘V’ is for Vehicle. All the data would be
analyzed to see how they are different in certain semantic properties by using the componential analysis, and also from the users’ perspective.
2. Data Analysis
There were two steps used in order to answer the problem formulations in this study. First, to find all the similar meanings of different nounvocabularies in
both English languages and categorized them into each part, then the researcher would explain all the differencesof nouns that had been categorized, and there is
also an analysis of the result of the questionnaires from the respondents. The researcher only used Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Then, second,in
order to answer the second problem in understanding the semantic properties between British and American different English words, the researcher using
componential analysis to find the features of the words and every definition in every word would be noted to show the similarities or differences among its
partner. This approach was used since all the data needed a clarification for the
meaning of the words itself, and the researcher first tried to find all the differences between American and British English words and categorized them into each part
then explained it. After analyzing those words that had been categorized, the researcher would formulate the features of the words by using the componential
analysis to show what was present and absent between those differences words. Below is the example of using the componential analysis that the researcher going
to use for the analysis of the problem formulation two.
Example: Cooker[+ gas]
[+ oven] [+ electricity]
[+ hob] [+ gas ring]
Stove [+ gas]
[+ oven] [+ electricity]
[+ hob] [+ gas ring]
