Publications

Publication details [#14308]

Goddard, Cliff. 2001. Sabar, ikhlas, setia - patient, sincere, loyal? Contrastive semantics of dome 'virtues' in Malay and English. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (5) : 653–681.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contrastive method | culture | lexical semantics1 | natural semantic metalanguage | value

Language as a subject

English | Malay

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

A contrastive semantic analysis of the Malay words SABAR (patient), IKHLAS (sincere), and SETIA (loyal) and their English translations. Differences in meaning shed new light on the cultural semantics of these Malay concepts.