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
The problems which are intended to be analyzed in this research are 1.
What is the semantic structure of Javanese perception verbs? 2.
What are the inherent meanings of Javanese perception verbs?
1.3. Purpose of the Study
The purposes of the study are: 1.
To describe the semantic structure of each lexicon of perception verbs in Javanese.
2. To show the inherent meanings that Javanese perception verbs have.
1.4. Scope of the Study
The writer limits this analysis only on semantic field particularly semantic structure. He tries to figure the semantic structure of perception verbs lexicon out, and uses
Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory to give the explication. The writer applies descriptive
and qualitative method in this research. The data were taken from Javanese magazine Panjebar Semangat,
dictionary, and writer’s intuition. He focuses on inherent meaning of verbs that perform an actionexperience based on
five physical senses in Javanese. This limitation aims to make the analysis of this research easier.
1.5. Organization of the Writing
The writer arranges this thesis into five chapters as follows in order to make a systematic writing:
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
It presents the background of the study, research questions, purposes of the study, scope of the study, and writing
organization. CHAPTER II
LITERARY REVIEW It explains the previous studies that have similar topic, and
explaining the theories related to the study. It contains the definition of verbs, perception verbs, semantic primes, and
aspectuality as the focus of this research. CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHOD It describes the type of the research, data sources, method of
collecting data, population and sample, and method of analyzing data.
CHAPTER IV RESULT AND DISCUSSION
It consists of deep analysis about the data using theory described in chapter II. It explicates the semantic structure of
perception verbs in Javanese. Thus, this chapter contains discussion and findings.
CHAPER V CONCLUSION
It draws the conclusion based on the whole previous chapters
CHAPTER 2 LITERARY REVIEW
