THE FORM AND MEANING OF IDIOM RELATED HUMAN BODY IN JAPAN AND MINANGKABAU LANGUAGE

Abstract

This study discusses Japanese and Minangkabau idioms that relate to members of the human body, namely the head, face and hands. This research was conducted to analyze the form of idioms using a semantic approach with idiomatic theory. The method used in this paper was descriptive analysis of qualitative. Data sources were observed from the book that contained Japanese idioms and language Minangkabau. Based on the results of many studies. It is found that idioms with limbs that declare of good feelings in psychological feelings and personality feelings. In Japanese there is the idiom named "atama ga agaranai" and the Minangkabau language "gadang kapalo" which relates to the shape and meaning of the limbs. The meaning of idom in Japanese is not the real meaning. While the meaning of idioms in the Minangkabau language, the meaning of idioms shows the figurative meanings and many vocabularies in the form of poetry or “pepatah petitih†whose proverbs have meaning and form resembling idioms. Whereas in Japanese do not have rhymes, petitih and so on.