Investigating and Maintaining Mandailing Cultural Terminology

Syahron Lubis, Muhizar Muchtar, Adriana Hasibuan

2018

Abstract

Part of Mandailing Language (ML) lexicon is susceptible to loss particularly the cultural terms and idiomatic cultural expressions. The loss may be due to the replacement of the old words by the new ones and the limited use of the words (they are used only in cultural events). Since the youths of Mandailing seldom attend their cultural ceremonies, their mastery of cultural terms and expressions is very poor. The poor mastery of those cultural terms and expressions cause them to lose interest in them. This study tries to investigate and list those cultural terms and expressions and to describe their meaning in Bahasa Indonesia . Fifty common cultural terms and fifty idiomatic expressions have been collected from Mandailing tradition figures functioning as informants and from some printed sources. The common cultural terms belong to simple (one-word structure) terms and complex (more than one word structure) terms. The simple terms express literal meaning and the complex terms express nonliteral meanings and those idiomatic expressions express idiomatic/connotative meanings only. Three ways can be suggested in order to sustain the life of those terms and expressions : 1. To record every cultural term and expression and have them published for public readers, 2. To train more people to become tradition figures who are skilled in using cultural terms and expressions and 3. To write more books on Mandailing traditions for children’s reading at schools.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lubis S., Muchtar M. and Hasibuan A. (2018). Investigating and Maintaining Mandailing Cultural Terminology.In Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR, ISBN 978-989-758-449-7, pages 1468-1473. DOI: 10.5220/0010082514681473

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosteerr18,
author={Syahron Lubis and Muhizar Muchtar and Adriana Hasibuan},
title={Investigating and Maintaining Mandailing Cultural Terminology},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,},
year={2018},
pages={1468-1473},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010082514681473},
isbn={978-989-758-449-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,
TI - Investigating and Maintaining Mandailing Cultural Terminology
SN - 978-989-758-449-7
AU - Lubis S.
AU - Muchtar M.
AU - Hasibuan A.
PY - 2018
SP - 1468
EP - 1473
DO - 10.5220/0010082514681473