Pragmatic Study of Discourse Hegemony on the Enactment of Dhalang Trah in Ruwatan Ceremony: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach

Agus Efendi,Andrik Purwasito,Wakit Abdullah,Bani Sudardi

doi:10.15294/komunitas.v8i2.6754

Abstract

This study applies qualitative research with Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Fairclough (1995) and the criticism on the ideological dissection of social opacities. The data collection encompasses the interactive and non-interactive techniques which involve the techniques of in-depth interviewing, observation and content analysis. Results of the analysis reveal that units of language use reflected from the texts and contexts of the ruwat puppeteer based genealogy's enactment can be traced from the use of modalities, the phrase ‘mboten kalilan’ (impermissible, unable) in the decree of dhalang ruwat can be further extend to express the word ‘unable’ and ‘able to’, other aspects such as politeness, metaphors, ethos which is classified into the verbal and non-verbal discourse are the devices of discursive enactment of the elite power of dhalang trah. The findings conclude that there is arising symptoms of social inequality narrowing the role and significance of the non-ruwat puppeteers. The hegemonic practice such as the discursive enactment of dhalang trah (descendent of Ki Lebdajiwa) is determined by certain associations which try to normalize certain condition. The argument which refers to the enactment of Ki Lebdajiwa and his descendants as the holder of power is enacted through transactional form, where power is centered on one point.

Highlights

System of power in society has long been set and successfully divided people into groups or categories of social class or strata
This study examined the phenomenon of hegemonic discourse in both texts and contexts of ruwatan ceremony, the analysis focus on the role of dhalang trah, the descendants of dhalang Ki Lebdajiwa/Ki Panjangmas and the non-trah or the non-descendant
Fairclough (1995) model of discourse analysis applied to the use of modality, ethos, wording and name creation, and the use of metaphors to describe the phenomenon of hegemony in the discourse of true puppeteers or the puppeteers based genealogy enactment in the ruwatan ceremony of Murwakala’s puppet shadow show (Wayang Kulit)

Summary

Introduction

System of power in society has long been set and successfully divided people into groups or categories of social class or strata. The study of language and culture in the community and their social - ethnical phenomena often associated with the issues surrounding the language styles of certain class to the other. Studies on the ethnography of communication often position language as a vehicle of the socio-cultural enactment of domination among the people of groups, this very well-known with the term ‘hegemony’ studied by the notable linguists of anthropology such as Gumperz (1982), Hymes (1996), Foley (1990), Bourdieu (1991). Among the uniqueness is found in the ritual of personal cleanse. People of sukerta need to be ritually cleansed through

Methods

Discussion

Conclusion