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- Title
Gandaan Separa dalam Terminologi Bahasa Melayu: Analisis Sosioterminologi.
- Authors
Kasdan, Junaini; Haroon, Harshita Aini; Che Pa, Nor Suhaila; Idrus, Zuhairah
- Abstract
Terms are formed to address the need for vocabulary in new or expanded knowledge. The question is how were terms developed before there were ever rules or formula? While opinions abound that many terms have been formed spontaneously, there must have been certain methodologies that were adopted in the coinage of terms. Research has shown that in the Malay community of yesteryear, one approach that has been used was to source from people's interaction with nature. The tradition does not stop among the ancient Malay community, but the same technique appears to have been used until the present day. For example, through the names of fauna such as sesibur (sibur-sibur), pepatung (patung-patung), lelais (lais-lais) or sesumpah (sumpah-sumpah); and flora such as deduit (duit-duit), bebaru (baru-baru), bebuas (buas-buas) or bebati (beti-beti), which have been used for a long time, new terminologies such as cecair, rerambut, tetikus, bebuli and tetingkap are used from a wide range of discipline, including engineering, science and technology. The structural similarity is certainly not a result of copying but is due to the adoption of particular formula that can be explained. This article presents aspects and patterns of partial reduplication in Malay terminology, explaining the link between knowledge and the coinage of terms. Our deliberation on the concept of the coinage, which is based on socio-terminological analysis, drawing from the data, analogies used, and philosophy as well as cognition of the Malay speaker, not only brings to the fore the Malay wisdom in the determination of terms, but also highlights the reasoning of the Malay mind. The analysis comprised of 1,087 partial reduplication terms found in the Science and Technology (S&T) corpus reveals that while the formation of the terms ensures the retention of their "Malayness", the coinage has not been done arbitrarily but has been based on structured patterns and system.
- Publication
GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 1, p183
- ISSN
1675-8021
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17576/gema-2017-1701-11