CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Study
Perception verb is one of state verbs that have temporal properties [+stative], [- perfective], and [-punctual]. Temporality itself is an expression about how language
speakers perceive time in language form Mulyadi, 2009. Not many researchers discuss perception verb in their research, particularly
in relation to semantic features. Most researchers, who discuss perception verb, analyse perception verb syntactically or morphologically. Perception verbs in
languages in the world have their own uniqueness. The writer limits its definition to a verb expressing an experience of
language speakers’ physical senses. As in English there are lexicon SEELOOK to express experience of speakers using eyes, HEARLISTEN to express experience
of speakers using ears, TASTE to express experience of speakers using tongue, SMELL to express experience of speaker using nose, and FEEL to express
experience of speaker using skin. The usage of each lexicon also differs because collocation takes part in this
case. In English, for instance, there are two lexicons to be used to express experience of speaker using eyes: SEE and LOOK. However, language speakers
prefer to say SEE when they want to express a short experience using eyes
accidentally, whereas they will say LOOK when they want to express experience using eyes for a long period of time.
This phenomenon is also found in Javanese. In contrast with English, Javanese has more lexicons to express an experience with five physical senses. All
of these is based on Javanese people’s point of view. This makes Javanese more
interesting to be analyzed than English or Bahasa Indonesia. Moreover, the usage of perception verbs in Javanese is more extensive rather than in English and Bahasa
Indonesia. The writer is also interested in explicating each perception verb lexicon
using Natural Semantic Metalanguage methodology. Thus this paper is kind of semantic analysis. Based on the reasons above, the writer presents the phenomenon
as a thesis entitled “Semantic Analysis on Javanese Perception Verbs”.
1.2. Research Problems
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