Lexical and Cultural Meanings of Majalan Sortana Tradition in Death Ceremony of Aeng Tong-tong Madura Society

DOI

10.2991/icalc-18.2019.27How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ethnolinguistic, Lexical and Cultural Meanings, Sortana Tradition, Madurese

Abstract

Aeng Tong-tong society still clings to death ceremony, one of them is doing majalan sortana tradition. Sortana is giving a religious meal which is abstract because it is given to a human with the purpose for giving the one who dies as the first stock on his journey to the afterlife. This research aims to know the lexical and cultural meanings of verbal and non-verbal language of majalan sortana tradition by using ethnolinguistic approach. In this research, the data are from the interview result with the informant. In addition, there are two data, verbal and non-verbal language. The verbal data are (1) term, such as sortana, (2) expression, such as Sortana sangunah se mateh, Sortanain makle tak datang dhalem mimpeh niser ka se mateh, Ngaton dhalem mimpeh. Furthermore, the non verbal data is symbolized into food types include Nase’ pote, massa’an, Koa tobung, Kophi, aeng sa-gelas, Dhamar talpe’ / lampu.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Hodairiyah Hodairiyah
AU  - Wakit Abdullah Rais
AU  - Inyo Yos Fernandez
PY  - 2019/02
DA  - 2019/02
TI  - Lexical and Cultural Meanings of Majalan Sortana Tradition in Death Ceremony of Aeng Tong-tong Madura Society
BT  - Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Arts, Language and Culture (ICALC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 189
EP  - 196
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icalc-18.2019.27
DO  - 10.2991/icalc-18.2019.27
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