A Semantic analysis on notice and caution in public places
Abstract
This is a semantic analysis on notice and caution in the public places. The objective of this research are (1) to find out the meaning of symbol and sign in notice and caution, and (2) to find out the types of meaning are involved in the notice and caution. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. To collect the data the writer used observation and documentation (using pictures). The object of this research is 75 pictures. The finding of the research shows that there are three signal words in this data: (a) Notice, (b) caution, and (3) double-meaning sign. The third signs have not been discussed in the literatures to my knowledge. However, the writer cannot analyze further about this third type because the number of this data is limited. The finding of this research also shows that there are three types of meaning in the signal word dealing with notice and caution in my data. There are: conceptual meaning, connotative meaning, and affective meaning.
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