The study of Phuthai language status in Kuchinarai District, Kalasin Province, a Tai Language Family has the following objectives: first, to evaluate the Phuthai linguistic repertoire; second, to investigate language attitudes of the Phuthai people... that the status of Phuthai language in Kuchinarai District, Kalasin Province will survive in the future because Phuthai people still maintain their own language and have a positive attitude toward their own language and ethnicity.

The purposes of this study are 1) to categorize the senses of /?ook/ 2) to analyze the concepts of those senses and 3) to explain the semantic relations among them. The study is based on the cognitive semantic approach. The writer used image schema... in analyzing the concepts of the senses and used metaphor and metonymy in investigating the semantic relations. It is found that /?ook/ has 10 senses: 1) to move from the interior to the exterior 2) to initiate actions 3) to disconnect from membership 4

to requests in Thai and English. It is found that social status and social distance are the important factors while the ranking of imposition is not. For requests in English, the main factors related to the request strategies are the social distance

sections: at the word level using componential analysis theory and at the sentence level based on speech acts. According to componential analysis, the final particles are analyzed, using 4 features: sex, politeness, social status and relationship.... The result reveals that out of 29 final particles only two are used to indicate the sex of the speaker. Most final particles are considered as polite words and can be used by people of all statuses. They are commonly used among people who know each other well

The purposes of this study are 1) to analyze the semantic component of Thai final particles. 2) to verify the semantic components of Thai final particles.The data in this study is collected by recording forty-hour conversation in order to analyze... the semantic components of final particle by method of componential analysis and collecting questionnaires from Thai informants in order to verify the semantic components of Thai final particles. From the method of componential analysis, the result shows

In the Sukhothai period, Thai language had various reference terms for Buddhist monks because of their particularly high status in the society. This research aims to study categories of reference terms for Buddhist Thai monks and their lexical... and semantic changes in the Sukhothai period in comparison with the Present. Data had been collected from 41 edited Sukhothai Inscriptions and analyzed through a framework of reference terms and rules of language change. This research has collected 74 reference

the speaker asks the hearer to answer, divided into 3 specified purposes. These verbs of communication indicate 7 semantic features concerning speaker, hearer, message, mean, speaker’s and hearer’s social status, relationship between the speaker and the hearer...This study aims at investigating 3 aspects of verbs of communication in Thai : the number, the speaker’s purpose and the semantic features of each verb. The result of the study shows that there are 105 verbs of communication in Thai, as identified

รัชกาลที่ 9 (พ.ศ.2559) จำนวน 2,441 แห่ง ตามแนวคิดอรรถศาสตร์ปริชาน (cognitive semantics) ประกอบกับแนวคิดการกลายเป็นคำไวยากรณ์ (grammaticalization) และแนวคิดกระบวนการเกิดคำใหม่ (lexicalization) ผลการวิจัยมี 4 ประการ คือ ประการที่ 1 คำว่า “บน” ปรากฏในหลาก...The study aims to investigate word classes, functions and contexts of the word /bon/ in Thai, along with its meanings and concepts as well as processes and mechanisms of semantic change and development from Sukhothai period to the reign of King Rama