ANALISIS PERIBAHASA JEPANG YANG MENGANDUNG KATA “MULUT” (KAJIAN SEMANTIK)

Abstract

Language is a communication media in maintaining interpersonal communication, the language used in the form of expression or advice what the so-called proverbs. In Japanese, proverbs are called Kotowaza which means the string of words or short expressions containing sarcasm, satire, indirect expression, advice, warning, and so on which are used in the past time. The purposes of this research are to describe the meaning of the Japanese proverbs and the meaning of Indonesian proverbs. The method used is descriptive qualitative method, and the data collection is conducted by using observation technique with uninvolved conversation, while the note-taking technique is used to write down the data. Twenty Japanese proverbs are analyzed, and based on the data analysis, it is obtained that there are 3 data of Japanese proverbs containing the same meaning and words, while 17 data of Japanese proverbs containing different words but the same meaning as the meaning of Indonesian proverbs.