Human Referents and Social Meaning in Balinese
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https://doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1506.31Keywords:
Balinese, human referents, social meaning, social cognitionAbstract
This paper discusses the ways in which human referents and social meaning are expressed in Balinese language through the use of kinship terms, non-kinship terms, pronouns, and other related expressions. The findings reveal that non-kinship terms are more frequently used in Balinese language than kinship terms, and that both types of terms are expressed in low register. Additionally, pronominals and deictic expressions play a significant role in expressing social meaning and indexing the social relations between speakers and addressees. The Balinese speech level system exhibits complex indexing of human referents and speech participants in both physical and socio-cultural spaces, giving rise to dynamic situated social meaning. We argue that the study of human referents and their social meaning in Balinese provides important insights into the cultural and linguistic diversity of Indonesia, as well as the complex connection between language, cognition, and social interaction.
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