Swearing in Bengkulu-Malay Language with the Animals as Reference

DOI

10.2991/iclle-18.2018.51How to use a DOI?

Keywords

swear, animal reference, Bengkulu-Malay Language

Abstract

The utterance which contained swear sometimes was not realized its existence because of its spontaneous characteristic. This communication event could lead to the misappropriation of meaning because the meaning of a swearing word sometimes was applied to the reference which was probably not in accordance to the real meaning itself, for example swearing with the animals as reference. In Bengkulu-Malay language, when the person swore, there would be a reference to the nature of the animals that was said as if similar to the human nature that was swore to the imposition of human characteristics in animals. The researcher used the eclectic approach to decide the theory, methodology, and explaining the result of the research with the aim to complete each other. The method of this research was descriptive qualitative. The location of the research was done during the process event of communication. The data was the swears which referred to the animals. The sources of the data was taken from the informant (speaker of Bengkulu-Malay Language) who were not specified (accidental sampling). It meant whoever accidentally met with the researcher could be used as an informant in accordance with the purpose of research. The method of collecting the data was done by using the refer and introspection methods. The refer method in data collection technique was done with the tapping and recording techniques. Meanwhile the introspection method was done with the study method technique of collecting data using equivalent referential. The result of the research shown that there were five (5) kinds of swear which referred to the animals, they were: (1) bangsat (bedbugs); (2) anjing (dogs); (3) babi (pigs); (4) cak ikan buntal (puffer fish); and (5) kucing air (beaver); (6) lolak (sea shells); (7) badak (rhinoceros); and (8) bujuk (freshwater-fish with a very bad appearance).

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© 2018, 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  - Eli Rustinar
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DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Swearing in Bengkulu-Malay Language with the Animals as Reference
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Language, Literature, and Education (ICLLE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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