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Abstract
This study aims at describing variation of meaning carried in kalembo ade as an instrument of
resolving conflict among individuals and groups in Mbojo community by applying speech act
analysis. Data were collected from speech events in Mbojo community and further analyzed
descriptively. One type of speech acts was taken by considering its relevancy towards to focus of
this study, i.e. expressive. Results showed that kalembo ade dealt with one of types of speech acts,
i.e. Expressive type. The expression was found to reflect some actions, including condolences,
apologies, greetings, thanksgivings, refusal, and congratulations. Hence, by viewing the context of
usage, members of Mbojo community used this expression as an instrument in communication to
resolve conflict, in which the phrase was used as tool to control verbal interaction during a speech
event.
Abstract
Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan variasi pemaknaan kalembo ade sebagai instrumen
pemecahan konflik di Mbojo dalam tinjauan tindak tutur. Data dikumpulkan dari peristiwa tutur
antara individu dalam masyarakat bahasa Mbojo yang kemudian dianalisis dengan analisis
deskriptif. Dalam proses menganalisis data, kajian ini menerapkan teori tindak tutur, yaitu tipe
tindak tutur ekspresif. Tipe ini terbagi menjadi ungkapan belasungkawa, permintaan maaf, ucapan
salam, ungkapan penerimaan, ungkapan penolakan, dan ungkapan selamat. Ekspresi ungkapan
kalembo ade menunjukkan ragam makna yang direpresentasikan mencakup lima hal, yakni
ucapan salam, ungkapan penerimaan, ungkapan penolakan, dan ungkapan selamat. Selenjutnya,
dengan mengkaji konteks pengunaan ekspresi ini, dapat diambil kesimpulan bahwa masyarakat
Mbojo menggunakan ungkapan kalembo ade sebagai salah satu instrumen komunikasi dalam hal
pemecahan masalah, di mana penggunaannya dilihat sebagai alat control dalam komunikasi
verbal pada peristiwa tutur.
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those were related to kalembo ade. used to carry values. Next, this article
Therefore, object of this study was any presents the variation of meanings carried
speech event dealing with the use of out in kalembo ade.
kalembo ade with its contexts of discourses.
Researchers were the key instrument during 1. Kalembo Ade as Apology
the study. Affluence in meanings of kalembo
Data were further analyzed using ade could be viewed as communication tool
technique suggested by Miles and Huberman in a high culture entity, including Mbojo.
(2014: 15-20). They suggest three-step This phrase was also used as verbal
protocol in data analysis, i.e. reduction, expression of apology, as shown in [1].
display, and drawing conclusion. Since
beginning, data were analyzed by [1]
considering some aspects, such as speaker, a. Farmer A: Aka sangadina mboto ringa
interlocutor, components of utterance, ku mbi’a kuta ta sabae ele na
purposes of utterance, and materials being aka.
spoken. These components were based on (Last night, I heard sounds from
facts within speech events. the east fence)
b. Farmer B: Eli ma bauna?
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION (why, sounds?)
According to Cummings (2007), c. Farmer A: Tio ba nahu, wara edaku
speech act is a phenomenon of pragmatics – lao kai kopa wawi. Kayaknya
a branch of linguistics that studies about wara lu’u na aka sangadi na
meaning in speech by dealing with context. re. Nahu wati loa kacihi wali.
In the case of kalembo ade, this study makes Be si di ake di tonggu.
use Austin‟s (1965) theories, who classifies Kalembo Ade re, laina da
speech act into four, i.e. constantive, ne’e sandaka inga wea.
directive, commissive, and (I saw a track of boar. It
acknowledgement. Based on the aim of this seemed that it trespassed last
study, to examine variation of meaning night. I could not handle it
might be carried in kalembo ade and its since I had to guard this side.
representations of neutralizing violence. In Kalembo ade, not because I
the early stage, the researchers needed to did not want to help you)
find variation of meaning by using Austin‟s d. Farmer B: Iyora wati bune-bune na,
breakdown on acknowledgement, i.e. ampota loa kabune romo ja ni
apology , condolence, bid, greeting, (Yes, no problem. True, you
acceptability, rejection, and congratulation. could not do anything if from
two sides like that)
FINDINGS
Variation of Meanings in Kalembo Ade Conversation [1] above occurred
Various meanings carried out in the among two farmers – Farmer A and Farmer
phrase kalembo ade became main B. Farmer A guarded his garden actively,
consideration of studying it, which served while Farmer B in one night did not come to
social function for people. It was stated to guard his own due to some problems.
have social value due to how the content of Therefore, Farmer B asked help from Farmer
the phrase brought positive impression in a A who worked that night. Their garden was
speech event. However, it may seem to be not so far to each other. In the morning,
used in negative sense, but in fact, it was
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Farmer B talked to Farmer A that he found verbally. In response to this situation, Person
track of boar around his garden. Farmer A B came for soothe Person A by expressing
felt guilty to Farmer B since he failed to help condolence. For this purpose, she used
him to watch Farmer B‟s garden last night. kalembo ade two times in the beginning of
From the script, it was revealed that Farmer two sentences. The rest of first sentence
A could not guar two gardens at the same coming after kalembo ade talked about
time since his own garden was also being religious concept of God as the owner of
attacked. However, he felt guilty for he had human rooted from Islamic tenet (2.b).
stated his willingness to respond Farmer B‟s Meanwhile, in the other sentence, after
request the previous night. In order to saying the second kalembo ade, Person B
neutralize the situation, Farmer A said an also used the phrase to begin her motivation
apology using kalembo ade as in [1.c]. By to the Person A in order to strengthen her to
using the phrase, it seems that Farmer A cope with the situation. In this context,
tried to reduce disappointment of Farmer B, kalembo ade was understood as a feature to
which was responded well by Farmer B, as communicate people‟s sympathy and
in [1.b]. motivation at the same time.
he considered the amount of gift was small kalembo ade was used to keep both parties
or not enough. That is why Person A decided engaged in a conversation in keeping a good
to say kalembo ade while giving the thing. mood of interaction. Disappointment may be
On the other side, Person B took the gift reduced by placing the phrase in the
without any objection. By using the phrase, beginning of rejection response towards a
Person A expected Person B to accept the request. However, it may function if both
gift happily; even he thought that the gift did sides have the same level of sensitivity and
not fulfill the needs of Person B. In this experience in communication using Mbojo
sense, Person A tried to fill up the gap language.
between expectation and reality by putting a
resolving component, i.e. multi-meaning DISCUSSION
phrase kalembo ade. In every social reciprocal action
among Mbojonese, the use of kalembo ade
4. Kalembo Ade as Rejection has become a primary tool of
Rejection is not easy thing to cope communication. It functions as a tool to
with. It may trigger conflict among regulate interaction within society naturally,
individuals or groups in certain contexts. which cause collective consciousness to
However, among Mbojo people, rejection emerge among participants in conversations.
can be undertaken while keep a good Whenever individuals in Mbojo community
relationship among interacted people. hear this phrase, it is not necessarily felt as
Conflict might be avoided by placing group identity through linguistic feature, but
kalembo ade in a speech event, as long as also contributes significantly in reducing
both sides have the same level of acquiring potential violence among individuals that
Mbojo language in terms of sensitivity and may cause group violence, if it is not being
experience in using the language. Data [4] overcome. In many cases, social
shows how this phrase works in a phenomenon like cence ncihi (debate about
conversation. right and wrong) may cause group conflict,
which is called as perang kampung
[4] (kampong war).
a. Person A: Mai talao lampa-lampa ee Space of the existence for kalembo
(Let‟s have a walk) ade is living in people‟s soul, thoughts, and
b.Person B: “Kalembo Ade nahu tiloaku behaviors among Mbojonese. This phrase is
lao rero” used at least in three regencies, as the origin
(Kalembo ade, I cannot go sites of Mbojonese community, including
anywhere) Bima City, Bima Regency, and Dompu
Regency. Syntactically, kalembo ade is a
Among Mbojonese, it is often to see phrase. Morphologically, this phrase was
negative response towards rejection, for created trough partial affixation of the first
instance in a verbal expression “Ka ingge- word kalembo, which is derived from the
ingge weki, cou si sia ede” (Arrogant. Who word lembo (broad or wide) and
does he think he is). This kind of response compounded with the word ade (heart). By
may cause a conflict since the rejected combining the two words, this phrase
person may count it as humiliation. actually may be understood as an appeal of
Therefore, members of Mbojo community being „generous‟ or „cordial‟ in certain
use kalembo ade to avoid the conflict with a situations (see Dictionary Mbojo-Indonesia,
gentle way. Data [3.b] shows us how 2016). In Thesaurus of Mbojo language
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(2017: 73), the other word for kalembo is and rejection. These findings were found by
kapaja (means enlarging). Therefore, the use studying the contexts of usage. Hence, by
of kalembo ade generally is to suggest hearer viewing Bourdieu‟s conception regarding
to be patient. Discussing the phrase using violence, this study found the use of
morphology or semantic might give very kalembo ade in reducing symbolic violence
little perspective, but not in pragmatics. That in society through a linguistic feature that
is why this study also found that native was considered to have attribute as
speakers seemed to have rough translation of neutralizer of situation leading to conflict
this phrase into Indonesia, which was in fact among individuals or groups within
their second language. Whenever they are Bimanese speech community.
asked to explain the meaning of kalembo ade Moreover, there were some
in Indonesian language, they mostly conditions considered important to be
translated as “banyak maaf” (many sorry) understood to use kalembo ade properly in
not using its lexical or morphological communication. Those conditions were
meaning. Therefore, it is better using gentle voice, no rough intonation, no loud
pragmatic point of view to understand the voice, modesty, and equal level of sensitivity
carried meaning of this phrase. Pragmatics and experience in Mbojonese language. The
allows us to see how a single phrase can last condition was considered vital in order
bring some meanings. Throughout to allow both sides to have equivalent
pragmatics, one existence may carry multi understanding of contexts in using the
senses of meanings. This affluence within phrase. In other words, cultural background
kalembo ade may engage some aspects, such is very crucial aspect to see this phrase
as contexts of when, where, to whom, and in functions properly in communication.
what situation. Cultural aspect enables both sides to
As a multi-meaning phrase in one of view kalembo ade as neutralizer in
indigenous languages of Indonesia, by communication. In sociology, social system
borrowing Austin‟s (1965) classifications on manifested in semiotic is viewed as an
speech act, kalembo ade is necessarily instrument that enacts networking within
studied. Based on findings and discussion society. By adapting Jung‟s (1990)
presented earlier, it is found variation of collective unconsciousness, this study came
meaning of this phrase from the perspective with a view that kalembo ade has been
of speech act analysis by examining its uses institutionalized within the speech
in various settings. As explained earlier, this community becoming a collective
study collected data directly from the field agreement, as what Durkheim (1893) calls as
by participating as observers among speech collective consciousness (in Allan & Allan,
community in three regencies where the 2005). Other experts have coined different
local people spoke Mbojonese as their native terms to mention the same notion, such as
language, i.e. Bima City, Bima Regency, and hive mind, group mind, mass mind, and
Dompu Regency. By applying this technique social mind (Greenwood, 2004).
of entering the site, the researchers could get
valid data, in which one of the researchers CONCLUSION
was seen as insider considering his origin. Conflict among individuals is one of
Results of data analysis procedure complex problems to be solved. Experts are
show that there were four variations of still trying to study patterns that construct
meaning within the use of phrase „kalembo conflicts. In linguistics, pragmatics is used to
ade‟, i.e. apology, condolence, acceptability, investigate how a conflict may be triggered
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