Ungrateful Thesis Rezqan Noor Farid

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h. Ungrateful

The next behavior which is portrayed by Banjarese Proverb is ungrateful. This behavior means lack of feeling thankfulness and appreciation which is considered as bad behavior in Banjarese community. One of the proverbs contains this behavior is proverb Dibari daging handak tulang. This proverb means ‘given a meat, wants a bone ’ which can be separated into several parts: dibari ‘given’, daging ‘meat’, handak ‘want’, tulang ‘bone’. Based on its literal meaning and parts above, the proverb dibari daging handak tulang has two clues of interpretation, dibari daging and handak tulang. Both of the clues are a contradictory that can be seen through its meaning. The first clue is dibari daging, a verb phrase consist of passive verb dibari and a noun daging. Verb dibari means ‘given something’ and contains a sense ‘free’ in it. As for noun daging ‘meat’, it can be associated with good food or things. So, ‘given a good for free ’ is appropriate meaning for verb phrase dibari daging. While, the second clue is handak tulang, i t is a verb phrase which means ‘wants something not too good ’. The meaning ‘something not too good’ is taken from a noun tulang ‘bone’ which is usually left aside because it is hard to eat and people will choose to eat meat than bone. It is clear that this proverb contains an explicature ‘someone who choose bad thing rather than accepting a good and free thing ’. However, it is incomplete interpretation if only using an explicature as the basis. For further interpretation, implicatures are needed. Below are several possible implicature which can be formulated from the proverb, including: 39 1 Showing an even where someone does not know the value of the thing he choose. 2 Showing a person who disrespects other’s present. 3 Showing that being lack of thankfulness and ingratitude is should be avoided. The most appropriate implicative meaning for the proverb is the third implicature. It is in line with the context of the utterance of the proverb where the elder of Banjarese use the proverb as a warning to the youngster who disrespect and showing ingratitude behavior towards other. The proverb ‘dibari daging, handak tulang ’ is also a medium for the elder to teach the youngster about ingratitude behavior which is a bad behavior in Banjarese community. Besid e the proverb ‘dibari daging, handak tulang’ above, there are several proverbs with ungrateful behavior portrayed in them. Those proverbs are: 1. Diandak ka bahu, handak ka kapala, diandak ka kapala, pas manjajak. 2. Ditinggal manawak, dibawa malinggang.

i. Greedy