An Analytical Study of Head in Thai Language
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Objective to study of This research article “An Analytical Study of Head in Thai Language” is the structure and meaning of the word “Head” by gather information of 400 words from Thai national corpus randomly and only select the word “Head” as the main word, specific names and idioms are not included. 348 words has been collected, researcher choose to analyze the meaning of the word “Head” by the appearance of the word with other words then take the result to analyze the concept of how to use the word “Head”. The study shown that the word “Head” could be classified into 5 structural categories 1) stand-alone 2) head + noun 3) head + verb 4) head + adjective 5) preposition + head and found that “Head” can be used in context that have 6 different meanings 1) organ that on top of living things 2) components of the origin of thing 3) beginning 4) idea and intelligence 5) people and 6) important thing.
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