Vocabulary Prosperity: Words Concept of 'Mind Activities' in Javanese

Abstract

In Javanese language, there is a series of word that can express the concept of mind neutrally. These words bear a resemblance meaning, but actually they have different elements of meaning. These differences result in variety of usages.These words include the word mikir 'to think', nalar 'to reason', neges 'to interpret', nggagas'to think about', nrawang 'to foresee', and ngreka 'to concoct'. Such diversity is the richness of the language lexicon concerned. To know the diversity of words with its richness of the concept of meaning, componential analysis was implemented by asserting meaning field theory of Indonesian and Javanese lexicons proposed by Wedhawati. The similarity of meaning is caused by a group of words that has a shared meaning component, namely a shared concept of 'MIND'. Then, in terms of form variation that distinguishes meaning is a sign that each word in the group has the specific component of meaning. That makes the existence of word diversity in expressing concept in a language. The method used is descriptive qualitative where verbal test was exercised in data collection. Verbal test is a test for gaining data applying some related contexts. From this analysis, a list of lexicon concept 'MIND' was obtained. The lexicons consist of 27 words with their exact definition. The definition of the lexicon is used to explain the different meanings contained in words that express 'activity of mind' in Javanese language.