Ecotext and Ecolexicon of Ritual Congko Lokap Speech Text in Manggarai, the Western Part of Flores Island, Indonesia

Abstract

The study of ecotext and ecolexicon involves exploring how language represents and communicates environmental awareness, and how these linguistic constructs can shape our perceptions and understanding of environmental issues. Thus, this study focuses on examine the congko lokap ecolexicon as it belongs to one kind of ecotext. This study was designed as a qualitative study. The result of the study reports that the ecolexicons in ritual congko lokap ecotext present some morphological characteristics. They are formed through the zero derivation and compounding process. Those morphological processes impact the form and word classes. Semantically, the language used in ritual congko lokap speech covers some lexical meanings: synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, and hyponyms. Furthermore, the language used in ritual congko lokap speech text plays several rules: instrumental, regulatory, representational, interactional, personal, and imaginative functions. The identified ecolexicons mirror the biological, sociological, and ideological dimensions of environment.