B. Approach of the Study
Approach of the study was the semantic approach. The semantic approach meant in this study was specifically in term of componential analysis between
certain American and British vocabulary. Componential analysis feature analysis or contrast analysis was the analysis of words through structured sets of semantic
features, which were given as “present”, “absent” or “indifferent with reference to feature”. Shortly, Componential analysis was a method typical of structural
semantics which analyzed the structure of a words meaning.
Example:
Man [+ male] [+ adult]
Woman [– male] [+ adult]
Boy [+ male] [– adult]
Girl [– male] [– adult]
C. Method of the Study 1. Data Collections
This study relied on a dictionary as the main source of the data. Since the study was a dictionary analysis, the data would be taken only from Oxford
Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. In this research, population study was taken. It meant that all the data would be analyzed in this study. Since all population was
analyzed, no samples were taken. The population data in this research consisted of 26 American English words and 26 British English words. All the data became 52
English words. The 26 of American English words had its partner in British English words. The technique in collecting the data was by finding the differences
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
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