A Study of Emotional Words appeared on Film Entertainment Magazines, Version Soap Opera, named “Bang Ra Chan” and “Wi Marn Mek Khala”

Abstract

This study aimed to study about meanings and emotional words comparison, appeared on Film Entertainment Magazines, Soap Opera Version, named Bang Ra Chan, and Wi Marn Mek Khala, by content synthesizing with qualitative research methodology, followed by scope of emotional words definition by Rungthiwa Chatthanrasmi (1981), which were 3 emotional words categories; expressing speakers’ emotions and feelings, expressing speakers’ desire and demand, expressing speakers’ perception and thought. The collected information from soap opera named Bang Ra Chan, published on Film Entertainment Magazine, issued 914, 9th year, and issued 998, same year, named Wi Marn Mek Khala. The research results showed as follows: 1) In Bang Ra Chan, there was 9 emotional words that expressed the speakers’ feelings; dissatisfaction, surprise, doubt or question, loving, fright, pity, annoyance, insult and indignation. In Wi Marn Mek Khala the results showed 18 emotional words; fright, satire, surprise, excitement, dislike, dissatisfaction, doubt or question, annoyance, slip of the tongue, appreciation, happiness, discouragement, indignantion, pity, distress, teasing, being at ease, and feeling sorry for the loss. 2) In Bang Ra Chan and Wi Marn Mek Khala, there were 3 aspects of emotional words as follows; 2.1) desire and demand of speakers’ expression, 2.2) speakers’ attention making. 2.3) speakers’ argument. 3) There were the same and the different use of emotional word, “Er”, that expressed perception or thought of the speakers.