CHAPTER 2 ADJECTIVE MEANINGS
D. Semantic Types of the Adjectives
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35 2. Physical Property
Physical property in adjective primarily refers to the physical characteristics of properties that can be described through human sense such as sense of touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. Touch deals with the structure, texture, or weight of an object for example soft. Sight is concerned with what can be seen through the eyes, for example, clean, clear, crystal clear and shady. Hearing enables humans to perceive sound through the ears, some adjectives can be use are quiet. Smell is a human sense that can be perceived through the nose with a process that takes place when breathing in.
some examples of adjectives concerning sense of smell are fresh. Lastly, Taste can be explained through the tongue to distinguish various flavour or describe how something taste, for example fresh. Below are the example of the adjectives concerning physical property.
Breathe in the scenic beauty of the secluded Seger Beach from the hilltop, take selfies on the bamboo bridge, enjoy a fresh coconut, snorkel or go surfing
The adjective concerning physical property found in this sentence is fresh. Fresh describes the coconut especially how it tastes or looks. From the way it looks, the adjective fresh in fresh coconut has meaning that coconut leaves nice taste in your mouth and body that makes you feel satisfied. From these two interpretation, fresh obviously belong to physical property since it can be perceived through human sense such as sight and taste. Therefore, for the semantic property, fresh implies both (taste) and (new).
3. Color
Color is “the appearance that things have that results from the way in which they reflect light” (Hornby & Turnbull, 2010). Therefore, humans can see various kinds of colors only when there is a light. Once the light shines on an object, the colors will be reflected. As a result, humans can see the distinguish different colors. There are several common colors that humans must ve familiar with such as yellow, red, white, pink, blue, black, purple and green. Therefore, employing the adjectives colors in this article is to show what color that the object has. Through all the data analysed, there are numbers of colors used such as green, blue, white, red, orange and gold.
Watch the stunning the coastline immersed in the gold, orange, and red hues pf the sky as the sun sinks into the ocean.
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Gold, orang and green are the adjectives concerning colors found in the sentences. These three colors describe the hus of the sky. Firstly, the adjective gold, explains the color bright yellow, like the color of gold. Secondly, orange is the color between red and yellow, just like orange fruit. Lastly, red coloris having the color of blood or fire. Gold, orange, and red have the semantic properties (hues) in order to explain the color of the sunset.
4. Dimension
By its very nature, this type of adjectives pictures the clear insight about any measurable proportions possessed by an object in particular. When used in tourism language, it mainly characterizes the features concerning the spatial extent. Those measurements are usually in the form of height, width, and length. Height explains the extent of an object from vertical extent or position.
Width explains the measurement of horizontal extent, from side to side.
Length is concerned with the measurement of the distance between one point to the other point. Below, there are adjectives identified such as long, wide, shallow, and deep.
Along the south coast the beautiful Lombok island lies a long and wide stretch of beautiful white sand beach facing the glistening Indian Ocean.
The sentence above contains two adjectives concerning dimension, they are long and wide. Both of the adjectives are obviously dealing with the measurement of space or distance. In this case, they describe the stretch of the beach. Firstly long means the great length or distance. This adjective clarifies the length of the beach, saying that the beach has mush distance from one point to another. Secondly, the adjective wide measures the large extent from one side to another. Both long and wide have the same semantic property, that is (measurement) or (sizing).
5. Age
Age reveals a particular time when a person or thing has existed, time indicate the amount of time of the existing object or things that have connection with particular period of time. Some adjectives concerning age found in the articles are annual, legendary and traditional.
For a one of a kind cultural experience, head down to Seger Beach during the annual tradition of Bau Nyale Ritual and join the local festivity you won’t find elsewhere.
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In this sentence, the adjective concerning age found is annual. Annual deals with the particular time of one year, ut explains the even that is happening or held once every year. Therefore, adjective annual here describes the tradition of Bau Nyale Ritual that happens once a year. Since annual here deals with yearly moment, it has the semantic property (time) that can be described as one-a-year.
6. Human Propensity
Human propensity is regarded as a natural tendency for people to behave in a particular way. The point of this type is to show humans traits when they are contributing to or dealing with something. This type of adjective mainly is to explain the attitude of mind and feeling experienced by human beings such as aware and indicate one’s common traits, for instance adventurous. Below are the explanation of the examples.
If you’re a go-to adventurous person, you will enjoy the water sports activities like snorkelling, diving and surfing. Just bring everything you need for your perfect beach day -Semeti awaits.
Adventurous is the adjective concerning human propensity found in the sentence. In the sentence it is written “adventurous person”. The word person is characterized by the adjective adventurous. Adventurous explains the trait that the potential tourist is or might be. Adventurous describes a person who is willing to take risks and enjoy trying new ideas. Adventurous has the semantic property (trait) or (character) of human beings.
CONCLUSION
Adjective are characterized as expressions “that alter, clarify, or adjust the meaning contributions of nouns.” (The Cambridge of the English Language). On the semantic side, they introduce properties (whether they actually denote properties is a question we will address in detail below). In Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language, Patrick Griffths as a writer divide some important parts in chapter 2 “Adjective meaning”. namely
1. Using language to give the meanings of words.
2. Sense relations relevant to adjectives. Divided into several parts, namely synonyms, complementaries, antonym, converses.
3. Constructions with adjectives.
4. Semantic Types of the Adjectives.
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