Local language and cultural conflict in Flores Island Society. A Critical Linguistics Study on Cross Cultural Communication in the Middle of Cultural Conflict in Flores Island Society

Jonas Klemens Gregorius Dori Gobang,Edmondus Iswenyo Noang,Frans Salesman

doi:10.47577/tssj.v21i1.3845

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https://doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v21i1.3845

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Abstract

Flores Island is one of the diverse place despite its small size as the part of Indonesian East Archipelago and Lesser Sunda Island. We all know that regional language or local language is an intellectual and cultural property. Local language lives and develops in an area or community. There are many regional languages accustomed to be used as a means of communication. The use of local language with its different meanings in a region or community that is no longer homogeneous can be a trigger to cultural conflict. The causes of conflict among residents or cultural believers are assimilation and mixing of heterogeneous local language-speaking communities. This study aims at revealing the existence of cultural conflicts as a result of the meaning differences of local languagesused by the people on Flores Island. This study uses a critical linguistics approach with a cross-cultural communication paradigm.

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Nusa Tenggara Timur recently being one of the prominent travelling destination in the world, especially Flores and Komodo Island
The Province of archipelago with 566 islands located in Lesser Sunda Islands with Bali and NTB, with an area of about 14,300 km[2]
Flores as the most heterogeneous island in the Province have some regional or local languages which are different from one regency to another even

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Nusa Tenggara Timur recently being one of the prominent travelling destination in the world, especially Flores and Komodo Island. The Province of archipelago with 566 islands located in Lesser Sunda Islands with Bali and NTB, with an area of about 14,300 km[2]. Flores as the most heterogeneous island in the Province have some regional or local languages which are different from one regency to another even. Inside the beautiful and the diversity, their local languages in the practice of heterogeneous social life would possibly turn into the cultural conflicts. The reality that cultural conflict triggered by the different sense or meaning of a statement in local language practices becomes the research objective with cross-cultural communication paradigm. It is crucial to view the reality of cultural society living on Flores Island

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