The Meaning of Kei Proverbs in Behavior of the People

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10.2991/assehr.k.201014.094How to use a DOI?

Keywords

meaning, proverbs of kei, culture, behavior of the people

Abstract

The content of each culture can be expressed in language. Understanding to idioms and special expressions a language can to express the people habits and the way of thinking. That is through in vocabulary, figurative language, or metaphors of a language can be understood the culture of native speakers. Figurative language in culture o ethnic Kei is a proverbs, so this study aims to knowing relationship of language and culture, in this case how to Kei people describe his world which is reflected in proverbs. This study is a qualitative ethnolinguistic research method with the data sources from traditional leaders who knows well the language and culture of ethnic Kei, the data Obtained then Analyzed using content analysis approach. The result shows the meaning of Kei proverbs reflected in behavior of the people is divided into three parts; 1) Character of the people, 2) the people with their behavior, 3) the people with around situation.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Margaretha Febriany Narahawarin
AU  - Sri Winarsih
AU  - Natalia Manuhutu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/15
TI  - The Meaning of Kei Proverbs in Behavior of the People
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 435
EP  - 437
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201014.094
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201014.094
ID  - Narahawarin2020
ER  -