Expressions of Joy in Japanese and Indonesian Language - A Focus on Its Semantics

Nazmi Irdariadini Putri, Nuria Haristiani

2017

Abstract

Humans as a cultured society certainly have their own words to express emotions. To understand these emotional expressions requires not only knowing the meaning of vocabularies, but also understanding contextual background that is related to when and how the emotional expressions are used by native speakers. This study aimed to describe the form of expressions of joy in Japanese and Indonesian in terms of semantics and to identify its similarities and differences. This is a descriptive research study with a qualitative approach. The data in this study were collected from dictionaries, newspapers, magazines and online sites. The results showed that the forms of expression of joy in Japanese are ureshii, tanoshii and yorokobashii. Meanwhile, in Indonesian language are senang, gembira and bahagia. Based on the results of data analysis, Ureshii in Japanese and Senang in Indonesian are used mainly to express feelings when something happens related with expectation, and the subject is the first person. Tanoshii in Japanese and Gembira in Indonesian are used to express a feeling that contains a very happy condition, and also used while enjoying the condition. The subject is a first or second person. Yorokobashii in Japanese and Bahagia in Indonesian are used to express not only feeling, but also other’s happiness. The subject is the first person and it can be used for second and third person.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Putri N. and Haristiani N. (2017). Expressions of Joy in Japanese and Indonesian Language - A Focus on Its Semantics.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 278-283. DOI: 10.5220/0007165902780283

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Nazmi Irdariadini Putri and Nuria Haristiani},
title={Expressions of Joy in Japanese and Indonesian Language - A Focus on Its Semantics},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={278-283},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007165902780283},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Expressions of Joy in Japanese and Indonesian Language - A Focus on Its Semantics
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Putri N.
AU - Haristiani N.
PY - 2017
SP - 278
EP - 283
DO - 10.5220/0007165902780283