Representasi Nilai-nilai Religiusitas dalam Desain Ornamen Gong Senen Jepara

Abstrak Gong Senen merupakan karya ukir Jepara lampau yang dirancang langsung oleh Citrokusumo, yang merupakan Adipati Jepara, sekitaran tahun 1720 silam. Citrokusumo seolah-olah menjadikan Gong Senen sebagai sarana atau media berkomunikasi dengan warganya. Setiap ornamen pada Gong Senen mengandung nilai-nilai pesan religiusitas yang secara umum meliputi hubungan manusia dengan Tuhannya, sesamanya serta lingkungannya. Namun, pada masa modern ini, tidak banyak masyarakat Jepara, khususnya desa Senenan yang mengetahui karya ukiran bersejarah ini, begitu juga dengan pesan atau nilai yang terkandung pada setiap elemen ukirnya. Oleh karenanya, penelitian ini diharapkan mampu melacak, menganalisa hingga merangkum apa saja nilai-nilai religiusitas yang terepresentasi dalam setiap elemen-elemen ukiran Gong Senen Jepara. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan metode deskriptif. Selain menggunakan pendekatan estetis dan historis, penelitian ini juga menggunakan teori tanda semiotika sebagai pisau analisisnya, dengan mengindikasikan objek ornamen sebagai penanda dan makna dibalik ornamen tersebut sebagai petanda. Adapun nilai-nilai filosofi kehidupan Adiluhung Jawa di balik kemegahan ornamen ukir Gong Senen ini adalah pesan kepada warga Jepara, sebagai contoh dalam ornamen merak untuk menjaga lima perkara sebelum datangnya lima perkara, yakni menjaga masa muda sebelum tua, sehat sebelum sakit, kaya sebelum miskin, sempat sebelum sempit, serta hidup sebelum mati. Kata Kunci: desain, Gong Senen, Jepara, religiusitas, representasi AbstractGong Senen is an ancient Jepara carving designed directly by Citrokusumo, the Duke of Jepara, around 1720. Citrokusumo seems to make Gong Senen a tool or medium to communicate with its citizens. Each ornament carved on Gong Senen consists of the values of the religious messages which generally includes the human relationship with God, each other, and the environment. Yet, Not many people of Jepara, especially Senenan village, know about this historic carving as well as the message or value contained in each element of the carving. Therefore, this research is expected to trace, analyze and summarize the religious values represented in each element of Gong Senen Jepara carve. This research is qualitative research with descriptive methods. In addition, besides using aesthetic and historical approaches, this study also uses semiotic sign theory as a tool of analysis, by indicating the ornament object as a signifier and the meaning behind the ornament as a signified. The philosophical values of the “Adiluhung” (great) Javanese life behind the splendor of this Gong Senen carved ornament are a message to Jepara’s residents, as an example in peacock ornament to protect five matters before the arrival of five matters those are keeping the youth before the old, the health before the sick, the rich before the poverty, the ability before the inability, and the life before the death. Keywords: design, Gong Senen, Jepara, representation, religiosity

The Medieval Life of Language

The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication are revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and literature. Part historical reconstruction, part social history, part language theory, Amsler supplements the usual materials for the history of medieval linguistics and discusses the pragmatic implications of grammatical treatises on the interjection, Bacon's sign theory, logic texts, Chaucer's poetry, inquisitors' accounts of heretic speech, and life writing by William Thorpe and Margery Kempe. Medieval and contemporary pragmatic theory are contrasted in terms of their philosophical and linguistic orientations. Aspects of medieval pragmatic theory and practice, especially polysemy, equivocation, affective speech, and recontextualization, show how pragmatic discourse informed social controversies and attitudes toward sincere, vague, and heretical speech. Relying on Bakhtinian dialogism, critical discourse analysis, and conversation analysis, Amsler situates a key period in the history of linguistics within broader social and discursive fields of practice.

The Medieval Life of Language

The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication are revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and literature. Part historical reconstruction, part social history, part language theory, Amsler supplements the usual materials for the history of medieval linguistics and discusses the pragmatic implications of grammatical treatises on the interjection, Bacon's sign theory, logic texts, Chaucer's poetry, inquisitors' accounts of heretic speech, and life writing by William Thorpe and Margery Kempe. Medieval and contemporary pragmatic theory are contrasted in terms of their philosophical and linguistic orientations. Aspects of medieval pragmatic theory and practice, especially polysemy, equivocation, affective speech, and recontextualization, show how pragmatic discourse informed social controversies and attitudes toward sincere, vague, and heretical speech. Relying on Bakhtinian dialogism, critical discourse analysis, and conversation analysis, Amsler situates a key period in the history of linguistics within broader social and discursive fields of practice.

Tokens of Love

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Sociosemiotics as an impetus for naming

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