The Malayonesian Cosmological Doctrines in Some Past Scientific Writings in Malay

The Malayonesian cosmological doctrines highlighted here are based on the study of the five Malay inscriptions dated 5th century to 14th century A.D, a traditional Malay folklore on cosmology compiled by Abdullah (1984), and a well known best seller Malay manuscript entitled Taj al-Muluk edited by Syaikh Ismail al-Asyi (1893). We find that the Malayonesian cosmology changes as the people change their religion successively from Hindu to Buddha and to Islam as such that their cosmology became a syncretism of Hindu-Buddha cosmology and Islamic cosmology (after 13th century A.D). But in the second part of the 20th century, the Muslims through out the world began to rediscover their cosmology in relation to a much more pure Islamic cosmology. As a result, a substantial portion of Malayonesians become dualistic or syncretic in their cosmology. Then toward the end of the 20th century came a very powerfull Western cosmology invaded the Muslims thought through economics and malitarism as such that their belief in Islamic cosmology has to accommodate the Western cosmology as well and hence the syncretic Hindu-Buddha-Islamic cosmology became less prominent. A new relativistic dualism, namely a parallel recognition in both the Islamic and the Western cosmologies appeared in Malayonesian cosmology.

The Process Type and Participant Function of Jiah Khan’s, Kevin Carter’s, and Virginia Woolf’s Suicide Discourses

In this article, the process type and participant function of Jiah Khan’s, Kevin Carter’s, and Virginia Woolf’s suicide notes are analyzed. This article actually is a continuation of the article entitled Experiences around the Clauses: A Transitivity Analysis of Four Famous People’s Suicide Notes published by Vivid: Journal of Language and Literature (see Sawirman and Ridhwani, 2020) about the transitivity system, including process types, participant functions, and circumstantial elements, used in these suicide notes. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory is applied. Not only qualitative approach but also descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. Existing documents are one of the instruments to collect the data. Four suicide letters namely a suicide note written by Jiah Khan in 2016, a suicide letter written by Kevin Carter and published by TIME in 2001 entitles The Life and Death of Kevin Carter, and two Virginia Woolf’s suicide discourse published by Quentin Bell entitle Virginia Woolf: A Biography: 1912-1941 (1972) and an autobiography entitles The Journey Not the Arrival Matters: an Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1970.

Peranakan Chinese’s Literature in Doenia Baroe Magazine (1930)

Doenia Baroe Magazine (1930) is a press media of Peranakan Chinese that contains a lot of literature from various genre. The purpose of this study is to explain themes, forms and orientation of Peranakan Chinese’s literature, so that might explain author’s idea of literary works.Literature from Doenia Baroe Magazine has become the overview of history of literature that written by Peranakan Chinese that use historical methodology. Chinese literature in Doenia Baroe Magazine are influenced by the identity tendency as Chinese people which brings out rendering literary works. Literature from Doenia Baroe Magazine are adaptive to the modernity of colonial environment without needed to remove their ancestral heritage. Literary works in Doenia Baru Magazine has various genres such as short story, feuilleton and poem that implicitly show the author’s new world. Peranakan Chinese’s literature has not just become the social reflection but also implies political identity of the era.The result of this study, the beginning of chinese’s literature is relevant with mentality of the era that affects the author’s idea.

The Form of Dispute Settlement in The Border of Sea Region of Asean State Members and Its Implications to Indonesia

The ASEAN Charter itself has been recently effective on 15th December 2008 after going through the ratification of the ASEAN state members that have ratified a charter that makes the regional bloc into an "legal" institution (Legal Personality) for the first time. As we know the relationship among ten ASEAN state members does not always work smoothly. Sometimes disputes arise also where the most frequently occurring case is concerned to the regional border or annexation of Malaysia-Singapore about the regional annexation of Batu Pateh, Thailand-Cambodia border as a seizure and the other border areas. Particularly in the sea region a dispute is often occurred among ASEAN state members since at some certain marine areas it is still not yet clear about the borders of its territory. This has resulted in overlapping claims among these countries. It influences the fishing areas where the fishing boats and fishermen would be considered illegal fishing when crossing the boundaries of sea claimed by a country. Though the sea areas are not yet clear about the ownership. Eventually it became a dispute among ASEAN state members. Hence, it takes ways of resolving disputes among ASEAN state members. In this case, the ASEAN Charter contains the methods for settling disputes among ASEAN state members. Indonesia itself is one of ASEAN state members which has sea border with some ASEAN state members which also have sea dispute. Therefore, Indonesia also participated and signed the agreement and will also be bound at later by the ways set out in the ASEAN Charter.

Identity and Social Status in Language Used: An Explorative Study on Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner Tonight

Language usage has functions to express ideas, and simultaneously can promote the speakers’ identities and social status. Identity markers such as race, gender, class and ethnicity have important roles to choose language used. This paper explores the correspondence between language, identity and social status as exposed in a classic film entitled “Guess who’s coming to dinner tonight” released in 1967. The utterance of the characters in the movie will be analyzed in order to illustrate the vital role of language as a part of promoting the speaker's identity and social status. The study also emphasizes language choice, such as specific vocabulary, and share attitude when discussing a sensitive topic. As a finding, there are significant points that language use inevitably promotes the speakers' social identity due to their academic backgrounds and beliefs.

Ecological Change and Language Change

The current article discuss short description of language and ecology, or ecolingusitcs in regard to the language and social change. The article discuss the concept of ecolingustics and some approach to the study. Then, we discuss how the change of ecology and ecosystem affect the language, especially regarding language vitality. The paper also provide some examples of agricultural lexicon that rarely used due to the change of agricultural system. There some aspect that affect the language change, including language contact, environment change, language standardization, and the attitude of the speaker.

A Study on the Change of Functions of Kinari Village’s Rumah Gadang

This paper will present the real condition of traditional house in Nagari Kinari and try to analyze the change of the traditional house function as well as its factors. The study uses a qualitative approach to identifying and collecting field data through the fieldwork in Nagari Kinari, Solok. The result shows traditional houses in Kinari have changed its functions dramatically. These changes occur due to social changes, including changes in family structure, economic income, the national education system and personal awareness, and also differences in understanding of traditional culture.

Food And Drink Advertising Analysis On Television : Structure And Language Functions

The current research focuses on the discourse analysis of the food and drinks advertisement. The data were collected from television advertisement by using observational method. The analysis is based on the qualitative approach by focusing the analysis on the discourse approach. Data of this study in the form of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences in food and beverage advertisements on television. The result of the analysis shows that the emotional aspect was frequently used to engage the costumers to the product. Some advertisements also use foreign language to give a good impression to the costumer. From the result of the analysis, it can be inferred that food and drinks advertisement not only provided information and about the product but also reflect the cultural value of the costumers.

From Fishing to Tourism: A New Generation of Fishermen and Marine Resource Tourism in Indonesia

This paper explains about fishermen community on the West Sumatra related to the state of tourism resources. A higher pressure economic situation on the coast made the fishermen community turn to tourism activity. The fishermen community has involved in tourism area who have been fishing for much longer. Fishermen households included the new generation of the fishermen have also diversified their incomes, with many fishing households turning to tourism actors with men and women involved in various activities in the tourism area. This research used a qualitative approach with the descriptive-interpretative method. Data of research were taken from several fishermen households directly related to the tourism area in the village of Sungai Pisang, Bungus Teluk Kabung District, Padang. This paper discusses fishermen community as the new fishermen, mainly of the village of Sungai Pisang population group, has often been blamed for the loss of traditional access regulations by the effect of marine resource tourism. Fishermen community and their identity with related to this employment generation for marine resource tourism. Development of marine resource tourism brings their life changes of the fishermen's families, in the form of socio-cultural and economic changed.

Saputangan Sirah Baragi : New Hegemony of Minangkabau Modern Literature

This paper seeks to reveal the existence of the modern literary genre of Minangkabau, in the repertoire of modern Indonesian literature. Modern Minangkabau literature was detected existed since the 1930s through the printed media of the time. But the genre only showed its entity in the 1960s through Nasrul Siddik's short stories recorded in Saputangan Sirah Baragi (1966). The anthology of this short story gives a firm limit to the existence of the Minangkabau modern literary genre, and the kaba genre by strengthening its epigons in local print media, such as writers in the Aman Makmur newspaper , Singgalang , Semangat , and so on in the modern Indonesian literary horizon. So that it becomes a new hegemony in the modern Minangkabau literature repertoire in particular.