Peluasan Makna Alim: Analisis Semantik Kognitif.

The advent of Islam to the Malay world has brought a huge influence not only in the culture and life style, but also encompasses language elements and thoughts. This phenomenon can be seen in the increase of Arabic words that enriches the Malay vocabulary through borrowing. This research aims to focus on some Arabic words that show a departure in meaning and imply that its original meaning is no longer become the core meaning. These changes occur as a result of semantics assimilation process and the Malay sociocultural lifestyle. The entries that are investigated is 'alim' (pious) and the selection of the entry is based on the 4th Edition of Kamus Dewan, 2007. 'Alim' is polysemy in nature and apparently its core meaning from Arabic has changed when borrowed as loanword into Malay. This paper explains to what extent the changes have taken place based on 470 'alim' concordance lines taken from DBP corpus data bank. The analysis shows that the meaning of 'alim' has widen to other meanings and differ from the list given in the dictionary (4th Edition Kamus Dewan, 2007). It clearly shows that the expansion of meaning is semantically motivated. Based on the semantic cognitive theory using the prototype theory, radial networking category, image schema, metaphor conceptualization and metanomy, each expansion of meaning is well motivated and can be explained theoretically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]