Abstract
This article discusses about the marriage proposal speech through the linguistic anthropology perspective. Specifically, it elaborates the characteristics of the marriage proposal speech of Pakkado community in West Sulawesi especially on the aspects of parallelism and metaphor. The rationality of this study is to provide a better understanding of marriage proposal speech which is in line with the cultural aspect of the speakers.This research used participant observation method. The techniques used were recording and field note taking. The result of this study contributes in two factors: ethnography and academic. Ethnographically, the marriage proposal speeches which are dialectically produced by the community are very heterogeneous. Theoretically, the speech is not only referential, but also indexically non-referential. The result showed that the proposal speech displayed varieties of metaphor and parallelism, Keywords: Pakkado proposal speech, metaphor, parallelism DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/11-6-04 Publication date: March 31 st 2021
Highlights
Language as the media used by community can bring up an interesting language phenomenon as a cultural practice (Duranti: 1997)
Jakobson’s poetic theory through the aspect of parallelism is used to investigate the entire state of the text. This theory answers all research questions, whether the marriage proposal speeches are characterized by the use of parallelism or they only the ordinary language spoken by the speakers in everyday conversation
[Perhaps, they put us on the piece of floor and a half of floor] Data [A1] shows a metaphor sentence taken from two parts of the stilt house, namely disali sambessaqna ‘on a half of the floor’ and dik alakkaq sassigiqna ‘a piece of floor support’
Summary
Language as the media used by community can bring up an interesting language phenomenon as a cultural practice (Duranti: 1997). The researcher investigated comprehensively and elaboratively about marriage proposal in which the main focus was headed to the aspects of utterances and the relevant cultural contexts. Jakobson’s poetic theory through the aspect of parallelism is used to investigate the entire state of the text This theory answers all research questions, whether the marriage proposal speeches are characterized by the use of parallelism or they only the ordinary language spoken by the speakers in everyday conversation. From all definitions of metaphor above, it can be concluded that metaphor is an effort of combining two entities to produce a new meaning that is different from the original one This metaphoric concept is used to view and interpret the speech of marriage proposal activity.
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