THE ICONICITY OF DIRECTIONAL COMPLEMENT IN MANDARIN CHINESE

Hermina Sutami; Assa Rahmawati Kabul

doi:10.37301/culingua.v4i1.137

Authors

Hermina Sutami Universitas Indonesia
Assa Rahmawati Kabul Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities, Chinese Study Program

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37301/culingua.v4i1.137

Keywords:

Semiotics, Iconicity, Fuhe Quxiang Buyu??????, Complex Directional Complement

Abstract

Bahasa Indonesia does not have the complement of direction quxiang buyu ???? as Mandarin, because the Indonesians are not used to thinking iconically like the Chinese. That is, an idea is parallel to language. This parallel between thinking and language is called iconicity. The research question is what kind of directions are in the complement. The goal is to understand different types of direction complement, such as zoushanglai ???, paochuqu ???, xiexialai ???.. The theory used is Peirce's iconicity theory which is within the scope of semiotics. The method used is to compare word order with action-direction sequences so that parallelism between thought-language or iconicity is embodied in the form of complementary direction. This research shows that Chinese people always have compound directive words like VVlai or VVqu to explicit their mind towards or leave the speaker. This kind of idea is embodied in the form of a directional complement. The directional complement is posited after the predicate verbal. The result shows the visible likeness expressing the parallel is due to the parallelism of thought and language or iconic in semiotics.

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