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behavior and tends to hurt others. In conclusion, this proverb is used for showing the result of bad behavior to others.
Not only two proverbs above, there are still many proverbs which portray bad behavior and its result to others. Below is the example of the proverb which
contains it. 1.
Jangan mahabui mata kawan. 2.
Jangan mahual muntung kawan. 3.
Siapa manabuk luang, inya saurang nang tabarusuk.
e. Dependent
One of the bad behaviors that are taught to be avoided by people of Banjarese is dependent. A person who has this behavior tends to cause difficulties
to others. Below are proverbs that portray this behavior. The first proverb is umpat dibatang timbul. It consists of four parts umpat
‘follow, ride’, di ‘on’, batang ‘log n.’, and timbul ‘float’ which form a literal meaning
‘Rides on a floating log’. This proverb contains a clue of interpretation which is the phrase batang timbul
‘a tree log which floated along the river stream
’. This meaning is derived from the fact that in the Banjarese community, a woodcutter usually put the tree log in the river to be transported to the city. The
log will be retrieved in the downstream of the river. The meaning above has negative sense ‘something which does not have any destination, just following the
s tream’.
In order to identify the speaker’s intended meaning we need to generate explicature and implicature. Based on the clue explained above, the explicature
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that can be generated is ‘following something which does not have any
destination’. However, the intended meaning of the speaker cannot be interpreted only based on explicature. Several implicatures are needed to make this proverb
fully interpreted. Since this proverb is usually uttered to advising and teaching the youngster
about someone who always depends on others, we can formulate several implicature include:
1 Showing a state of a person who takes wrong decision.
2 Showing a state of person who cannot decide his own destination in
life. 3
Showing that depends on others too much results in taking wrong decision.
Regarding the clues, explicative meaning, and the context, the most appropriate implicature as the interpretative meaning for this proverb is the
implicature ‘showing that depends on other each other to much result in taking wrong decision’. In conclusion, this proverb implies that being dependent is a bad
behavior since it will lead to take improper decision. Beside the proverb umpat di batang timbul which is already explained
above. I also find another proverb portrays dependent behavior, they are: 1.
Kaya kalayangan pagat. 2.
Mahadang buah bungur. 3.
Kaya cacing panggal.
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f. Arrogant
