The Ritual of Ecolexicon in the Text of Batar in Tetun Fehan Malaka,Timor, East Nusa Tenggara Province: Ecolinguistic View

Abstract

This paper entitled "The Ritual of Ecolexicon in the Text of
Batar in Tetun Fehan Malaka East Nusa Tenggara Province:
Ecolinguistic view is a part of the corpus of local wisdom that
needs to be examined for the sake of sustainability of eternity
ecology of batar. This research aims to analyze and discover the
ritual process in text of batar by applying the theory of
ecolinguistic focusing on three logical dimensions (ideological,
biological, and sociological); that supported the theory of
linguistic and cultural linguistic theory. The approach used in this
research is descriptive qualitative with quantitative naturalistic in
nature.
This research applies fieldwork methods. The form of
research uses the method of participation observation, interviews,
and triangulations. The text of batar is rich of noun, categorical,
verb, adjective, and numeral lexicons. The implementation of the
four dimensions of modification gave birth to a totality in
dissecting the financial ecolexicon in interdependence with the
inner rituals, namely ideological dimensions, biological
dimensions, sociological dimensions and textual dimensions.
Keywords: Batar Text, Lexicon, Ritual, Tetun Fehan