Verbal Spoken Research Articles

The Paradox of Juluk Adek Adat Pepadun Megou Pak Tulangbawang Ritual Related to Restructuring Social Environtment

This article discusses the paradox in the juluk adek 'giving customary/ adat title' ceremony of the adat Pepadun Megou Pak Tulangbawang, Lampung. This descriptive qualitative research in the scope of ethnography of communication uses primary data in the form of communication patterns in the juluk adek ceremony conducted by bi kelamou 'wife of groom’s uncle', which seen by punyimbang ‘the leader of adat’, peghwatin 'adat’s actor', and the bride-groom's family. The author uses the distance elicitation method with virtual interview techniques, records, and notes. There were 13 lexicons in the form of verbal spoken by kelamou which have the meaning changing adjusted to the current social conditions of society. In addition, there were also 7 lexicons that should not be used and carried out in the procession of the juluk adek ceremony because they were considered to be sengok 'bad consequences'. If these things were violated, the consequence was that the bride-groom’s family must pay the dau 'adat fines' decided in the pepung 'adat meeting' in the sesat agung 'traditional hall' of Lampung Pepadun Megou Pak Tulangbawang, Lampung. Although many rituals must be undertaken, in the current social and pandemic conditions the procession is still carried out with some adjustments.

Genres of Music and Verbal Speaking in Music Works (Theoretical Aspects, Interaction, Study Methods)

The purpose of the article is devoted to consideration of the problem of interaction verbal and musical speech genres in musical works and determination of optimal methodological approaches and techniques for analyzing such interaction. In the context of this problem the holistic methodology of studying and illumination is for the first time proposed the issue of the specific speech acts in the music speaking, direct and indirect speech acts, taxonomy of musical speech genres and exercise of semiotic and discoursive analysis of music and musical narratives. All research positions are illustrated by the analysis of musical works by M. Mussorgsky and Sir Paul McCartney. Conclusions. The same nature of speech genres in verbal and music speaking has been proved, their taxonomy has been proposed and set out, methods of interaction have been revealed and research methods have been proposed.

“Reading-In”

The German-American anthropologist Franz Boas (1858–1942) was one of the most protean and influential anthropologists of the twentieth century. In part based on his book Primitive Art (1927), this essay considers his theory of the beholder’s share in constructing the significance of visual form and in interpreting its meaning. Boas’s analysis of what he called “contradictions” between his indigenous informants’ exegeses of form lay at the heart of his conclusion that individual agents “read-in” to form some of the most crucial aspects of social experience that are most salient and specific to them. “Reading-in,” I argue, is the verbal speaking of visual “seeing-as,” and it infuses visual form with the diversity and particularity of a speaker’s grammatical choices undertaken within their natural human language(s). This model might now seem self-evident. At the time, however, it opened up the possibility of an “anthropology” of art and, to an extent as yet unrealized, the possibilities of its sociology and history. The essay evaluates Boas’s model in relation to other well-known accounts of the beholder’s share in art history, philosophy, and elsewhere and concludes with a discussion of the uptake of his idea in the “structuralism” of Roman Jakobson and Claude Lévi-Strauss.