Careful in making decision

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c. Careful in making decision

A Banjarese person is required to be wise and never in a rush when making a decision. This is important because any decision, whether it is great or small decision, will has impact not only to the decision maker but also others people around him. In Banjarese community, one way to teach the wisdom in taking decision is through proverbs. In this study, only one proverb portrays the teaching of carefulness behavior in taking decisions. It is the proverb akal diakali, wan fikir dipikirakan. The proverb akal diakali, wan fikir dipikirakan consists of five parts, akal [idea], diakali ‘think +passive’, wan ‘and’, pikir ‘thought’, and dipikirakan ‘think +passive’. Those four parts form a literal meaning ‘an idea should be thought about, and so do the mind ’. This proverb contains two clues of interpretation, two synonymous nouns akal and pikir and two synonymous verb diakali and dipikirakan. The first clue is two synonymous nouns akal and pikir. Both of the nouns have similar meaning ‘idea’. They also shared same feature that a thing created on a person minds. Using two synonymous nouns simultaneously yields the impressions that both of the nouns refer to everything which comes from a person mind. The second clue is two synonymous verb diakali and dipikirakan which literally means think over and over. Both of the verbs have parallel connection 59 with the nouns akal and pikir. The connection between the nouns and the verbs in this proverb shows that every idea should be thought closely. Based on the clues above, we can generate an explicature ‘when comes up with an idea, think carefully before apply it ’. However, the explicature generated before is unclear as the interpretation of speaker intended meaning. Since the context of utterance of this proverb is an advice to a person who too fast in releasing his idea and unwisely done every idea he has in mind, we can generate several implicature which include: 1 Showing that a person should think twice before deciding to apply his idea. 2 Showing that being wise in making decision will leads into unregretable result. Regarding the context of utterance, the clue of interpretation, and explicature already explained above, we can assume that the last implicature is the intended meaning of the speaker. This implicature reveals that being wise in making decision will leads into unregretable result whatever the result is.

d. Careful in talking