Manggaraian expressions of environmental preservation: a study on ecolinguistics
Keywords:
ecolinguistics, environment preservation, expressions, manggaraian languageAbstract
This paper explores the manggaraian expressions that used to explain the inisiative of people in Manggarai to preserve the environtment. This is a kind of code in which located the local wisdom to manage the surroundings as well as possible so that they will not be disappear. It promotes some problems such as meanings and functions of the expressions in term of preservation the environtment. Then it is designed to describe the meanings and functions of the expressions which become the indicators of environtmental development. These problems can be analyzed by theoretical conccep of ecolinguistics. It is viewed that language is the symbol verbal of comunication, used to describe the problems of environtments. In addition, Sapir said that vocabulary of languages in the world reflects the environtment of its speaker. The two statements indicate what language employs to draw the environtmental issues. It is sum up that language has very important roles to manage the environtment. Data collections includethe informations or qualitative statements that given by the informen, gathered from the field. These informations have been got through the interview and observation. The interview is a way to get the informations.
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