THE IMPLIED CULTURAL MEANING OF THE WORDS THAT INDICATE THE DEFINITION OF ‘MORNING’ AND ‘NOON’ IN INDONESIAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGE

Kumala Dewi Wundari

Abstract


The meaning of a word is not only seen on the outside. In a word there are some stories or background that is closely related to human life. Time in this world continues to rotate so that humans cannot be separated by time. Therefore, the ambiguity in the words that expressing time in Indonesian and Mandarin still persists until now, which causes us to be unable to determine the exact line of time.This paper is based on the results of observing the condition of the sunrise to limit and compare words that express the meaning of morning and afternoon in Indonesian and Mandarin, starting from analyzing the original meaning and trying to analyze the implied cultural meaning of words that indicate the meaning of morning and afternoon. Finally in this paper we found that the concept of thinking of the Indonesian and Chinese people about time is not entirely the same, each time period has each meaning from the culture of their country's life, In these words there are still differences and similarities in the habits and mindset of the Indonesian and Chinese.

Keywords


time words; morning sunrise; noon; lexical meaning; cultural meaning

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