Plant Lexicon in Village Naming as an Appreciation of the Madurese Community for the Environment
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- 10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_213How to use a DOI?
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- Village name; Toponym; Madurese community; Plant lexicon
- Abstract
Place names are not just markers to identify a particular space but reflect changes in social, historical, and environmental perceptions. This also applies to the name of the village, which is not only an administrative marker but reflects the culture of the community. One of them is the name of the village that uses the plant lexicon as a reference. This study aims to describe the plant lexicon as a reference for village names which is an appreciation of the Madurese community for their environment. The data of this research are all names of villages in Bangkalan Regency. Data collection used the documentation method and the equivalent method was conducted to analyse the data. The results of this study are the use of the plant lexicon as a reference in naming villages in Bangkalan Regency is an appreciation of the Madurese community for the natural surroundings. This is based on the structure of the village name in the form of words and phrases. Both structures use the plant lexicon as their core. The plant lexicon that is used as a reference for village naming is plants that have social and religious functions in the Madurese community in Bangkalan and plants that are widely distributed on the island of Madura.
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TY - CONF AU - Agusniar D. Savitri AU - Dianita Indrawati AU - Moch. Jalal PY - 2023 DA - 2023/03/19 TI - Plant Lexicon in Village Naming as an Appreciation of the Madurese Community for the Environment BT - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities 2022 (IJCAH 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1982 EP - 1988 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_213 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_213 ID - Savitri2023 ER -