Strategi Penguasaan Makna Leksikon Meishi Kategori Gutaitekina Mono oleh Tokoh Yotsuba

Abstract

In General, meishi or noun is by far the most mastered lexicon for children especially those in the pre-operational stage (2-7 years old) where several strategies are used to increase the retention of vocabulary significantly. This study aims to identify the strategies used by Yotsuba, a 5-year-old protagonist of Yotsubato! in his journey to acquire the meaning of meishi, specifically, gutaitekina mono (concrete noun). This descriptive qualitative study used data from volume 1-10 of Yotsubato!. 30 data related to gutaitekina mono were extracted and further analysed using the framework by Gollinkof (in Dardjowidjojo, 2008:262-263). The finding shows that Yotsuba used 6 strategies to acquire the meaning of gutaitekina mono: novel nameless strategy (11 data) reference (10 data), extendibility (4 data), conventionality (2 data), object scope (2 data), and categorical scope (1 data). Novel name-nameless category is found to be  the most used strategy while categorical scope was the least used.

Keywords: gutaitekina mono; lexicon; meishi; strategies.