Uwatta’s Interpersonal Communication Patterns in Maintaining Sect of Belief Through Tolotang Community Rituals

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10.2991/978-2-38476-070-1_39How to use a DOI?

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Communication; Pattern; Tolotang Community; Beliefs; Leadership

Abstract

Every human community has an agreed social structure or standard order as well as functions inherent in each part of that social structure. Tolotang is also a term for a school of beliefs that are adhered to and known since ancient times as a society religious and has high integrity in upholding its culture. Traditional ritual processes this, done by the Tolotang community led by Uwatta’. As supreme leader, Uwatta’ communicated by providing opportunities to members of the Tolotang community group to convey feelings, ideas, opinions, even they are given the freedom to discuss issues that appears in his group, so the solution they get is the result of the thoughts of the members are formulated together. In carrying out communication interactions, Tolotang traditional stakeholders use interpersonal communication to their community, this is done so that the ritual information conveyed is easier, faster, and more appropriately received by their community.

This study aims to analyze Uwatta’s interpersonal communication patterns in maintaining the flow of beliefs through the Rituals of the Tolotang community. This research method is a field research conducted in Sidrap Regency, by looking at how the communication patterns carried out by Uwatta as a traditional leader in maintaining rituals. This research uses a qualitative approach and a historical approach, using two data sources (primary and secondary), then in collecting data through two techniques, namely; observations and interviews, in analyzing data by collecting data, then conducting examinations and studies, then information data are studied, studied, and concluded in a descriptive way as a result of the final research. As a result of this study, Uwatta as a traditional leader in maintaining the rituals of the Tolotang community’s faith flow went through 4 stages, (1) The stage of seeing and familiarizing (2) The stage of providing understanding (3) The stage of involvement in the ritual (4) The stage of remembering. In addition, an internal and external interpersonal communication model was created because Uwatta acted as a Communicator who was a tongue-in-cheek, a behavior in the process of rituals carried out towards his community in order to maintain and maintain the ritual beliefs of the Tolotang community.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dhia Naufalia Ilmi
AU  - M Iqbal Sultan
AU  - Muhammad Farid
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/06/27
TI  - Uwatta’s Interpersonal Communication Patterns in Maintaining Sect of Belief Through Tolotang Community Rituals
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Linguistics and Cultural (ICLC 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 436
EP  - 445
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-070-1_39
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-070-1_39
ID  - Ilmi2023
ER  -