The objective of this article is to compare the meaning of kanji characters of Japan and Chinese characters by choosing only the pairs of Japan’s kanji characters and simplified Chinese characters that have similar written forms based primarily... on the meanings of the kanji characters. Ninety-eight Japan’s kanji characters are taken from the book entitled 初級日本語: Shokyuu Nihongo and the meanings compiled in Thiarachai Iamworametha’s Thai-Chinese dictionary (2008) and Kodansha’s Compact Kanji Guide

The present study adopts a corpus-driven perspective to an analysis of the ‘current relevance’ meaning, a central meaning of the present perfect, in general and textbook corpora. The term ‘current relevance’ refers to a meaning of the present... the pattern-meaning relationship, the present study examines two English general corpora, BE2006 and AME2006, to explore if the ‘current relevance’ meaning of the present perfect can be realized on textual surface. The analysis suggests that the meaning under

The purposes of this study are to analyze and classify the meanings of the perception verb /boda/ in Korean compared with /duu/ and /hen/ in Thai systematically, and to compare features of the meaning extension process among these three words... extended meanings which are sorted into three semantic domains, i.e. SIGHT; act of seeing. THOUGHT; act of thinking, and PERFORMANCE; act of doing. The meaning of /boda/ in the semantic domain of SIGHT means to perceive with eyes. In the semantic domain

The purpose of this article is to study and compare the connotative meanings of “LI” in Mandarin Chinese and “NAI” in Thai, by employing a cognitive semantics approach to analyze and explain the meaning. The results of this research reveal seven... connotative meanings of the direction word “LI” that indicate that an object lies within the boundaries of: 1) human society, 2) time, 3) metaphorical meaning, 4) members or departments of an administrative district, 5) a plural number, 6) information sources

Previously, cognitive semantics research, studying polysemes, have often mentioned the cognitive processes that are related to meaning extension. Although the majority of the research investigates the meanings of base words, some research studies... on standard Thai and Thai dialect kinship terms suggest that /mɛ̂ː/ ‘mother’ tends, also, to be used for its metaphorical meaning. This study aims to examine the different meanings of /mɛ̂ː/ ‘mother’ in Southern Thai compounds as a polyseme that explores

This study aims at comparing of the meaning of Pali and Sanskrit words in the lexicon of Pali, Thai, English and Sanskrit of His Royal Highness Krommaphra Chandaburinarunath with the Royal Institute Dictionary, B.E. 2542 (1999). The information used... for this research consists of the original of Pali and Sanskrit words that have same root but different definition in the mentioned two books using the standard of the changing of narrower meaning, broader meaning and shifted meaning of Phraya Anumanrajathon

In different contexts, the Chinese word “meaning” (意思) makes listener’s understanding different from original meaning because in lexical pragmatics the word “meaning” cannot express the exact meaning without context-dependent; it means this word... is indeterminacy of natural language. This article discusses the meaning and Pragmatic Enrichment of the Chinese word “meaning” (意思) in difference contexts, and each meaning will be context-based pragmatically enriched. Pragmatic Enrichment includes Pragmatic

The original meaning of Chinese characters will evolve over time from thebeginning of word formation, some words will lose their original meaning byborrowing other meanings, the meaning of some words will become dead wordsbecause they will no longer... use a word in future generations, Some words changetheir meanings because of the different concepts they use. This paper examinesthe evolution of the meaning of the word "zu" (族) in Shangshu, Zuozhuan,Zhanguoce and Shiji. Investigating the "zu

There are many words with multiple meanings in Chinese, and one of the most commonly used words is “对 (duì)” This article collected the meanings of the word “对 (duì)” from 5 dictionaries and found 19 total meanings. In Thailand... level or work. This article investigated the word “对 (duì)” found in the vocabulary in levels 1-6 of the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK), analyzed, and compared the meanings found in 5 dictionaries. All the 19 meanings from the dictionaries were divided

This study aimed to employ the framework of inter-modal construction of ideational meaning, as proposed by Unsworth (2006), to compare the instantiations across two different modes of the story ‘Call Me by Your Name’, the novel and its film... meaning were found from the comparative analysis: concurrence, complementarity, and connection. These forms of ideational meaning, coupled with Foucault’s repressive hypothesis, help to profoundly explain the homosexual practices in the story, which