Purposes of the Study Scope of the Study Operational Definition Writing Organization

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1.2. Purposes of the Study

The research problems mentioned above lead the researcher into three objectives of the research, they are: 1. revealing parts of the Banjarese proverbs which contain wisdom values. 2. finding kinds of the values represented through the Banjarese proverbs. 3. revealing social contexts influencing the producing and interpreting process of the proverbs.

1.3. Scope of the Study

This study focuses on the analysis of the linguistic element of the proverbs in order to reveal the wisdom values in the Banjarese proverbs. It also focuses on making interpretation and explanation of wisdom values using explicature and implicature meaning of the proverbs. The objects of this study are 85 Banjarese proverbs which are taken from four written Banjarese literatures, Karakteristik Bentuk, Makna, Fungsi dan Nilai Peribahasa Banjar Ganie, 2013, Kamus Banjar - Indonesia Hapip, 2001, Ungkapan dan Peribahasa Banjar Effendi et al, 1994, and Kamus Peribahasa Banjar A – W Ganie, 2013.

1.4. Operational Definition

There are three terms used in the study in connection with the title of the thesis objectives: 1. Proverbs refer to short sentences, phrase, andor group of words with certain structures which contains wisdom values. 4 2. Critical Linguistics refers to a method in analysing discourse or text which is connected with the social phenomenon happens at the time the discourse produced. 3. Wisdom refers to the result of thinking and decision making. It comes from a person and also influences the people around him. It can be regarded as a tool for teaching and will yield values and norms of life.

1.5. Writing Organization

This thesis consists of five chapters. It starts with chapter 1 which is the introduction to the study consists of the background, the purpose of the study, scope of the problem, operational definition and writing organization. Chapter 2 covers literary review which includes the description of previous study and the description of related literature. Chapter 3 shows the research methodology of the study. This chapter consists of the research design explanation, the data collection procedures, and the steps of data analysis. Chapter 4 explains the findings of the study and also the discussion related to the findings. Chapter 5 is the last chapter contains the conclusion of the study. The last part of the thesis is references contains list of literature which is used by the researcher. 5 CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE

2.1. Previous Studies