Uzbekistan state world languages university department of the theoretical aspects of the english language-i course paper in modern english lexicology

2.2. Explanation for examples of semantic field analysis
A lexical field is a set of lexemes that are used to talk about a defined area of experience; Lehrer, for example, has an extensive discussion of the field of 'cooking' terms. A lexical field analysis will attempt to establish the lexemes that are available in the vocabulary for talking about the area under investigation and then propose how they differ from each other in meaning and use. Such an analysis begins to show how the vocabulary as a whole is structured, and more so when individual lexical fields are brought into relationship with each other. There is no prescribed or agreed method for determining what constitutes a lexical field; each scholar must draw their own boundaries and establish their own criteria. Much work still needs to be undertaken in researching this approach to vocabulary. Lexical field analysis is reflected in dictionaries that take a 'topical' or 'thematic' approach to presenting and describing words."
Semantic Taggers
"The semantic tagger assigns words to the broad semantic field in which they occur in a given example. This process entails assigning a unique semantic field code to a polysemous word to reflect its meaning in the context in which it occurs.
Hence, to use a hackneyed example, in the utterance 'I robbed the bank' one would want bank to be placed in the semantic field of financial institution rather than location in this example. If the utterance were 'I sat on the river bank and fed the ducks,' we would want the reverse decision."
Conceptual Domains and Semantic Field
"When analyzing a set of lexical items, linguist Anna Wierzbicka does not just examine semantic information. She also pays attention to the syntactic patterns displayed by the linguistic items, and furthermore orders the semantic information in more encompassing scripts or frames, which may in turn be linked to more general cultural scripts which have to do with norms of behavior. She therefore offers an explicit and systematic version of the qualitative method of analysis for finding a close equivalent of conceptual domains.
"This type of analysis may be compared with semantic field analysis
by scholars such as Kittay, who proposes a distinction between lexical fields and content domains. As Kittay writes: 'A content domain is identifiable but not exhausted by a lexical field'. In other words, lexical fields can provide an initial point of entry into content domains (or conceptual domains). Yet their analysis does not provide a full view of conceptual domains, and this is not what is claimed by Wierzbicka and her associates either. As is aptly pointed out by Kittay, 'A content domain may be identified and not yet articulated by a lexical field, GS,' which is precisely what may happen by means of novel metaphor."
Linguistics as the key to study and redefine our perspective about language has important role in the study of meaning which is called linguistic semantics (Lyons, 1932:12). Semantics is one aspect that is needed for the people who wants to be a good researcher, Leech (1977: ix) states that semantics as the study of meaning is the central of study about communication. Moreover, meaning is needed for teaching and learning process of linguistics. As the linguist, the researcher admits that meanings bring crucial impact on his study, the study or research will go successfully at the time the researcher understand the meaning well. The important the study in the field of meaning prevent the fake data included on this research, especially related with language use in our daily activity.
The researcher found the problem that appears in newspaper in JawaPos on January16, 2010. The problem appears when the kingdom of Malaysia had assumed that the word “GOD” in Christian religion is the same with the name of God of Islamic religion. The perspective Kingdom of Malaysia firstly appears based on the conflict of Lawrence Andrew Jr. in Herald Magazine since 1992 in the past, the magazine called the word “GOD” as the same as God in Islamic religion. Even the word God is the same, but some translations of the main source of Helard magazine which is known as Bible mentioned different word of God. An abnormal phenomenon above needs the solution to reveal the real in reality. In this case, the researcher takes lexical meaning, lexical relation and diachronic field to reveal the real meaning and its history about word of God.
The researcher takes a point of historical study to study and detect about the beginning of the word and the development of meaning to reveal the problems that appears on both religions. Related with the word of “GOD”, the researcher uses the diachronic study to detect the history word of God. This research helps anyone who wants to know the history of God. To know the truth meaning and the relation of the meaning that appears in the kingdom of Malaysia the researcher try to do the best to solve the problem.
Through my perspective that I learn in the book of W. Terrence Gordon, historical study means the method that Saussure gives to answer the problem that appears in the historical field. Saussure assumed that the problem of historical study has nearly forgotten by the linguist in Saussure period. This problem is proved when the linguist of Saussure period cannot answer the truth meaning of linguistic itself.
They forget that every single thing of science included language walked through the time. It was important and to be the reasons not to forget about the History.
After the data had been obtained from the data sources, they are analyzed in the following steps:
First of all, the researcher classifies the data into two categories in accordance with the number of the duration of the data sources, namely Old Testament and New Testament in the term of the word God. The data of each category are presented, analyzed, and concluded. For the next, the researcher tries to comprehend the data found (in related with the word God) with the related literature that appears in the first Holly Bible written in IBRANIAN language and the Holy Qur’an. Comprehending the data of Holy Bible and Holy Qur’an means the meaning of related text in the word God is compared with the fact used in Holy Qur’an. The cross meaning of both Holy Books is relevant because, both religion is the same in term of the root religion that comes from Prophet Ibrahim, and the Unitarian systems (the narration of the story in the past, education, and perception are nearly the same). After the whole categories have already been presented, analyzed, and concluded, the researcher makes tentative conclusions. After consulting into the informants, the researcher makes truth conclusions
The data of this research were taken from Old Testament and New Testament. The data are classified into two categories. The first category is the data of Old Testament and for the second category is the data of New Testament.