Nuance of Meaning Synonym Transitive Verb Activities of See in Indonesia

摘要

Several studies on synonyms have been done, but there are still unanswered questions. Previous research has only examined the same element of meaning between synonymous words, but not so much in the aspect of nuance of meaning. This article was written to explain the nuances of the synonym meaning of transitive verbs of activity of see in Indonesian. This type of research is qualitative by using descriptive method. The data of this research is Indonesian sentence which contains synonym of transitive verbs of activity of see in Indonesian. The source of this research data is national newspaper Padang Ekspress, Femina magazine, wedding invitation letter, and talk show of Mata Najwa in Metro TV 2017. Researcher acts as research instrument and assisted with tool in form of research for recording and analyzing data. Data collection techniques used in this study are document recording, tapping techniques, and introspection techniques. The results showed that all pairs of synonyms of transitive verbs of activity of see in Indonesian are nuanced meaning. Therefore, the synonym can only be replaced in a certain context.