MEANINGS ON VARIOUS COOKING MANNERS IN VERB FORMS

Abstract

This paper aims at investigating the meaning of verb form ‘cook’ having one form with
different manners of cooking something. Therefore, the analysis discusses about the various
cooking manners in verb forms because cooking is an action or do something. The data was
taken from the article about cooking procedure, by note taking technique. The data was
further analyzed by natural semantics metalanguage. The result showed that verbs in cooking
action have some similar meaning with different manners such as the manner cooking of
blanch means cooking food into boiling water in a few minutes, while the manner cooking
of steam means cooking food on the boiled water. Here, metalanguage manages to describe
and analyze the verb meaning in cooking manners.