Taboo in the Frame of Tri Hita Karana: Balinese Language Spoken in Menyali Village
Keywords:
Taboo Words, Balinese, Menyali VillageAbstract
Taboo language is a local culture that is very important as the identity of each region. However, due to developments over time, culture in the form of taboo language is starting to be abandoned by Balinese people. This also happened in Menyali Village. New studies related to taboo language are urgently needed as a step to revitalize taboo language. Therefore, this research discusses taboo in Balinese language spoken in Menyali Village as a concrete action to protect taboo languages from extinction. This study focused on taboo words used in the Village of Menyali as a research object. The data was analyzed with descriptive qualitative design. Data collection was carried out through in-depth interviews with three informants and used interview guide as an instrument. The results showed that there were 45 (forty-five) taboo words used in Menyali Village. These taboo words were classified into three scopes based on the Tri Hita Karana concept, namely there were 15 words in Parhyangan, 24 words in Pawongan. and 6 words in Palemahan. This study is expected to provide implications in linguistics, especially for preserving Balinese culture in the form of taboo language.
Downloads
References
Affini, L. N. (2017). Analisis Kata Tabu dan Klasifikasinya di Lirik Lagu Eminem pada Album The Marshal Mathers LP. Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesustraan Dan Budaya, 7, 93–113.
Atifnigar, H., Mohammad, Z., & Abdul, H. (2021). Exploring the Causes of Language Death: A Review Paper Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant. 4(4), 2581–7922. www.ijassjournal.com
Aziz, Z. A., Yusuf, Y. Q., Burhansyah, B., & Muzammil, M. (2020). To Say or not to Say? Construing Contextual Taboo Words Used by Acehnese Speakers in Indonesia. Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 14(2), 83–98. https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2020-0017
Bengkulu, U. M., Islam, U., Fatmawati, N., Bengkulu, S., & Author, C. (2022). Social Dimension of Taboo Language as Knowledge Power Analysis for Identifying Transferable Saying English Taboo in Internet Sinarman Jaya 1*.
Budasi, I. G., Suwindia, I. G., Sedana, I. M., & Adi Ana, I. K. T. (2023). Male Versus Female Understanding of the Endangered Lexicon of Tabuh Rah Ritual. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 13(11), 2814–2820. https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1311.11
Crystal, D. (2000). Language death. Cambridge University Press
Harrison, K. D. (2008). When languages die: The extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge. Oxford University Press.
LEI, X. (2017). A Comparison between English and Chinese Taboo Language. DEStech Transactions on Economics, Business and Management, apme, 754–759. https://doi.org/10.12783/dtem/apme2016/8830
Laksana, IKD (2003). Tabu dalam Bahasa Bali. Disertasi. Jakarta: Program Pascasarjana, Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya, Universitas Indonesia
Mahayana, I. M., Suwendri, N. M., & Suarjaya, A. A. G. (2022). Context of Taboo Words in Tenganan Pegringsingan Village. https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.7-9-2021.2317758
Miles, M. B. & Huberman, A. M. 1994. Qualitative Data Analysis. London: Sage Publications.
Nonutu, B. I. R., Oroh, E. Z., & Andries, F. A. (2021). Sociolinguistics Analysis of Taboo Words in Minahasa District Kombi. Journal of English Culture, Language, Literature and Education, 9(2), 158–166. https://doi.org/10.53682/eclue.v9i2.2972
Soedarsono. 2002. Seni Pertunjukan Indonesia. Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press.
Wardhaugh, R. 2000. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Fifth Edition). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Wiwin, M., & Aziz, Z. A. (2018). Taboo Words in Devayan, a Language in Simeulu Island, Aceh Indonesia. ENGLISH EDUCATION JOURNAL (EEJ), 10(3), 227-236, July 2019, 227–236.
Yhani, P. C. C., & Supastri, M. (2020). Filsafat Tri Hita Karana sebagai landasan menuju Harmonisasi dan Hidup Bahagia. SRUTI: Jurnal Agama Hindu, 1(1), 36–44.
Zuindra, Z., Pujiono, M., & Arifuddin, A. (2021). Taboo Words in Deli Javanese Dialect. Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 5(2), 535–541. https://doi.org/10.30743/ll.v5i2.4562
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
Copyright (c) 2024 I Gusti Ketut Diksa Mulana, Gede Mahendrayana
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.