Keterkaitan Metafora dengan Lingkungan Alam pada Komunitas Bahasa Aceh di Desa Trumon Aceh Selatan: Kajian Ekolinguistik

Abstract

This research is ecolinguistics study, focused on metaphors that related to ecological environment, such as flora and fauna which evolved in human’s cognitive. This research is conducted in Desa Trumon, South Aceh. The research aims firstly at analyzing and describing the relationship of metaphors of Bahasa Aceh that used by the language community in Trumon with the environment. Secondly is at analyzing and describing the classification of metaphors, and thirdly is analyzing and finding the characteristic of metaphors related to the nature environment of Desa Trumon.The theory applied is a collaboration of cognitive conceptual metaphor theory with three dimension social praxis theory and theory of ecolinguistics parameters. The method employed was qualitative approach and the data obtained was from eight informants who were born and live in Trumon. All of them are above fifties and they also married the locals. The result of this research shows that the metaphorical frames are structured by forms of interaction of two models; a source and a target domain. Metaphors of Bahasa Aceh in Trumon constituted by the nature of flora and fauna that exist in local surroundings as the source domain, and human’s behavior or his manner stands as the target domain. The source domain imposed some structure on the target by virtue of mapping that characterizing the metaphors. The relationship of both was processed in thought of the language users, and also respected to the convention of the language community. It is also found that in general, metaphor used in Trumon constructed by bodily experience of the language users. The characteristic of metaphors used in Trumon is conceptual metaphors that constructed by nature in relationship between language entity and human’s cognitive under three dimension of social praxis(ideo-, socio-, biological dimension) which can be drawn on ontology and epistemic relations.

This research is ecolinguistics study, focused on metaphors that related to ecological environment, such as flora and fauna which evolved in human’s cognitive. This research is conducted in Desa Trumon, South Aceh. The research aims firstly at analyzing and describing the relationship of metaphors of Bahasa Aceh that used by the language community in Trumon with the environment. Secondly is at analyzing and describing the classification of metaphors, and thirdly is analyzing and finding the characteristic of metaphors related to the nature environment of Desa Trumon.The theory applied is a collaboration of cognitive conceptual metaphor theory with three dimension social praxis theory and theory of ecolinguistics parameters. The method employed was qualitative approach and the data obtained was from eight informants who were born and live in Trumon. All of them are above fifties and they also married the locals. The result of this research shows that the metaphorical frames are structured by forms of interaction of two models; a source and a target domain. Metaphors of Bahasa Aceh in Trumon constituted by the nature of flora and fauna that exist in local surroundings as the source domain, and human’s behavior or his manner stands as the target domain. The source domain imposed some structure on the target by virtue of mapping that characterizing the metaphors. The relationship of both was processed in thought of the language users, and also respected to the convention of the language community. It is also found that in general, metaphor used in Trumon constructed by bodily experience of the language users. The characteristic of metaphors used in Trumon is conceptual metaphors that constructed by nature in relationship between language entity and human’s cognitive under three dimension of social praxis(ideo-, socio-, biological dimension) which can be drawn on ontology and epistemic relations.