Falia‘s Ke-kaghati-an in Muna Speech Community From the Ecolinguistic Perspective

Abstract

This paper explained falia ‘taboo’ in kaghati in the Muna Speech Community (MSC) from the ecolinguistic perspective. The kite ‘kaghati’ is one type of the traditional games and a tribal cultural product in MSC which still exists and remains maintained. The forms of interaction, interrelation, and the interdependence in MSC with the natural and socio-cultural environments are recorded in falia’s ke-kaghati-an.The problem in this paper is to answer the question what expression in falia’s ke-kaghati-an is used to express environment in MSC. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the falia expressions found in ke-kaghati-an’s environment. This research is classified as a qualitative descriptive study as it describes the phenomena of falia expressions and environmental knowledge, especially the ones currently used in ke-kaghati-an’s environment, and the source of natural data as a manifestation of the Muna's socio-cultural-ecological life.
 Falia’s ke-kaghati-an is such a magical expression of magical value that MSC, especially the kaghati maker, feels afraid of breaking it.The expression of falia’s ke-kaghati-an teaches the belief in God, gratitude, balance of life, discipline, justice, honesty, orderliness, beauty, tolerance, and mutual respect. Falia is one way in which MSC shows their adherence to the local wisdom values, especially with regard to the environmental conservation that has been inherited from the ancestors since a long time ago. Conservation of the wealth of the expression of falia in MSC is very important, for both the sustainability of the Muna language and the conservation of kaghati with its traditions and culture, which is preserved in the meaning and cultural values ??of the past heritage as part of itspersonal identity, especially for the younger generation.

Falia Expression Protecting Environmental Ecosystem in Barangka District

“…Thus, ecolinguistics tries to actualize a healthy environment by incorporating local ecological wisdoms into the language. The ecological awareness propagated in deep ecology could emerge from the changing beliefs and attitude towards the natural world (Khosravi et al, 2017) Environment (ecology) in linguistics has a very significant role which is for the sustainability of language and to see local wisdoms including an ideology applied by a society with regard to environmental preservation (Mantiri & Handayani, 2018;Nirmalasari, et al, 2019). Furthermore, in the study of ecolinguistics, it's described a dialectic relationship between environment, language and domination/control of language, and domination of human described by Bang and Door.…”

“…The other dimensions in the diagram which are out of the context but significantly contribute are: (a) the dimension of the ideo-logics which refers to cognitive mental system, ideology, individual and collective human psyche; (b) the dimension of the socio-logics which refers to the way humans are coordinating the interrelation to maintain the collectivity individually; (c) the dimension of the biologics which refers to the collectivity and the coexistence between humans and other creatures such as animals, plants, ground, microorganisms, etc. (Lindø & Bundsgaard, 2000;Subiyanto, 2013;Yuniawan et al, 2017;Nirmalasari, et al, 2019). These three dimensions of social praxis are ecology or the environment of the language.…”

“…In this way, the collective consciousness will be constructed sequentially and systematically. Thus, the taboo phrases are as the representation of religious sanctity, ethics, morals, and manners to build the integrity of protecting the environment (Laksana, 2009;Nirmalasari, et al, 2019;Uniawati, 2014). Therefore, describing the falia taboo of Muna society in Barangka is always subject to the local wisdom philosophy of their daily life.…”

“…Falia has a role to shape the character of children in Muna society (Marafad & Niampe, 2016). In terms of lexicon, the construction of falia is seen from the kaghati of kite as the traditional game of Muna society (Nirmalasari et al, 2019). Falia has a role to socialize the local wisdom values to the people of Southeast Sulawesi as an effort to prevesnt corruption (Jalil, 2018).…”