Abstract
This article discusses the issues around the socio-cultural phenomenon that employ interdisciplinary studies between linguistics, anthropology and sociology to study the linguistic behaviors of the Lampungese society in a way to grasp their worldview. The data were technically collected through observation and literature reviews to bring out the voices and experiences of the people who mostly affected by the concept of Piil Pesenggiri, of people whose voices have been missing in literature and debate. The production and reproduction of identity through Piil Pesenggiri seems to remain a finding tradition exist among the Lampungese which primarily resulted both demographic and the local political change allowing emergence of a capitalist strategy "retreatment" used as a form of resistance against the transmigrants. It is not a secret anymore that Piil Pesenggiri which many of us understood as the life philosophy of Lampungese triggers negative stigma amongst other shared races or tribes of transmigrants, it is a shift of viewing piil as a mere "cultural shield" or cultural fortress within their social relations. It then becomes clear that the worldview of the social facts of the community as well as segregation that plunges into the socio-political aspects of society including education, cultural symbols, the political flow of identification of social structures. Todays, the existence of Piil Pesenggiri ethnolinguistically is deemed to reflect cultural capital, a static and contextual product of identity which cannot be separated from the people (ulun) Lampung. The empirical information obtained by this research is expected to be utilized by various stakeholders concerning the problem of relations between ethnic groups in taking the attitude, policy and purposes of a scholarship. Such studies are of course useful not only for reconciliation to conflicts involving the ethnic communities, but also to the ability to maintain a well-created social harmony as well.
Highlights
Hereditary, language is an instrument that allows us to interpret the world
According to the existing oral tradition, the Lampung tribe originated from Skalabrak, a place in Belalau region, North Lampung district
The production and reproduction of locality sense of identity through Piil Pesenggiri seems to remain a finding tradition which have been struggled by the Lampungese situating the demographic and local political change to capitalistic strategy “retreatment” used as a form of resistance against the transmigrants
Summary
Hereditary, language is an instrument that allows us to interpret the world. Language provides categories of thoughts or ideas, but at the same time, language properties push for possibilities, limiting how far or how close we can see. The conceptualization of language as an objectification of nature, and the evolutionary step toward the intellectual formation of what is considered as an orderly or otherwise chaotic pattern, is the basis of philosophical assumptions for linguists such as Saussure and Cassirer (in Ding, 2010). The root of this assumption comes from Immanuel Kant’s thought of human reason as a powerful tool and enables human beings to interpret the world or otherwise, to scramble or to overturn the understanding of the universe.
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