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LEXICONS OF FAUNA IN BATAK TOBA UMPASA: A STUDY OF ECOLINGUISTICS Devi Melisa Saragi
Jurnal Scientia Vol. 11 No. 02 (2022): Education, Sosial science and Planning technique, November
Publisher : Sean Institute

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Ecolinguistics is a study dealing the physical and social ecological context where language operates, and in turn, how language and discourse affect the environment and ecology. This research tried to determine the kinds of fauna found in constructing umpasa, the functions of the fauna lexicons as the lingual units in constructing the umpasa and the philosophical value which is represented by the lexicons of fauna in umpasa. Umpasa is a Batak Toba poem consisting of two, three, four lines or more conveyed by the people having higher position in the Batak kinship system. This research applied the qualitative descriptive with content analysis approach. The object of the data was the umpasa containing lexicons of fauna which were collected by observing method and note taking techniques. All the data obtained were then analyzed by content analysis approach. The first result of this research shows that the fauna found in umpasa are birds (olive-winged bulbul, sparrows, turtledoves), snakes, fish, buffaloes, cows, mice, insect , while the second result are that syntactically, the lexicons of fauna constructing the umpasa stand as subject, subject with implicit verb and object (direct and indirect object).The third result represents that the lexicons of fauna found in umpasa actually distribute some of philosophical value, such as value of environmental philosopy, value of transportation philosophy, value of cultural and traditional philosophy, value of consumption philosophy, value of high social status in the society, and value of health philosophy.
An Analysis of Humor Delivery Types and Functions in Family Feud Funny Moment Devi Melisa Saragi
DIALEKTIKA: JURNAL BAHASA, SASTRA DAN BUDAYA Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023): JUNI
Publisher : Prodi Sastra Inggris UKI

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Humor has played an important role in daily communication and interaction in different context and culture. The purposes of this research are : 1) to find out the types of humor delivery found in Family Feud Funny Moment; 2) to describe the function of humor delivery found in Family Feud Funny Moment. This research used qualitative descriptive method. As many as 64 data of humor were collected by observing and note taking method. All data which were obtained were analyzed by using the humor theories in order to get the types of humor delivery and the function of Humor by Attardo (1994) to get the function. The results show that the types of humor delivery implemented three different humor delivery theories, namely release, incongruiy and superiority. Of the three theories implemented, incongruity became the most dominat theory used in delivering humors which were found in 33 parts of deliveries or 51,56%. . The second result showed that there were four different functions of humor delivery found in Family Feud Funny Moment, such as defunctionalization, mediation, social management, and decommitment function. The most frequent function appeared in this event was as follow the as defunctionalization as many as 22 data (34,37%).