Title: LEXICAL MEANING USED IN ABRAHAM LINCOLN SPEECH “Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania”
Abstract: This research entitled Lexical Meaning Used in Abraham Lincoln Speech, “Addressed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania”. The objective of this research is to find lexical meaning that used in this speech. Lexical meaning is the meaning of language elements (lexeme) as a symbol of things, events, objects, and others. This meaning is owned language elements detached from the use or context. This research includes a qualitative research with using the narrative descriptive method, and the data analysis was using qualitative content analysis. In collecting data, the materials were taken from Semantics book by Geoffrey
Leech (1981), while the speech and its history were taken from a book by Frank Aretas Haskell entitled Battle of Gettysburg (1908) and also supported by relevant source data
from the internet. The data analyzed was based on a theory by Leech (1981). In terms of value meaning, Leech divides the lexical meaning into two types, they are: direct
meaning (conceptual) that distinguish into extended meaning and narrowed meaning, and associative meaning that distinguish into connotative meaning, collocated meaning,
affective meaning, stylistic meaning, thematic meaning, and reflective meaning that distinguish into gereflective meaning and pictorial meaning. The result of this research
shows that there are 57 from 271 words that contain the lexical meaning in Abraham Lincoln speech, they are 39 extended meaning (69%), 2 narrowed meaning (3%), 3
connotative meaning (5%), 2 collocated meaning (3%), 1 thematic meaning (2%), 4 affective meaning (8%), and 6 pictorial meaning (10%). From these result, this speech
contains the lexical meaning suggested by Leech (1981)
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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