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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Goddard, Cliff

Titel

Sabar, ikhlas, setia — patient, sincere, loyal? Contrastive semantics of some ‘virtues’ in Malay and English

Ist Teil von

• Journal of pragmatics, 2001-05, Vol.33 (5), p.653-681

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Quelle

Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect (DFG Nationallizenzen)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The words sabar, ikhlas, and setia arguably identify core personal virtues in traditional Malay culture. Using Anna Wierzbicka's ‘natural semantic metalanguage’ (NSM) approach, this paper undertakes a contrastive semantic analysis of these terms and their usual English translations, such as patient, sincere, and loyal. A number of significant meaning differences are brought to light, allowing an improved understanding of the cultural semantics of the Malay concepts.