Rice Cultivation Spells and Their Relevance to Literary Learning: A riffaterre semiotic analysis
- DOI
- 10.2991/icollite-18.2019.69How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- spells; riffaterre semiotics; hermeneutics; literary appreciation learning
- Abstract
Rice cultivation spells are spoken by community or traditional leaders, and can also be read by farmers when sowing seeds in the rice field. In sowing seeds, the spells are spoken as a repellent of disasters, and as an educational tool. The presence of spells in the implementation of education is an effort to introduce and preserve culture to the younger generation. This study aims to describe the semiotic features of the rice cultivation spells in Sundanese regions and their relevance to literary learning based upon local wisdom. The method deployed in this study was a descriptive qualitative involving a content analysis technique. The analysis shows that the rice-cultivation spells form as the request for permission from God as the holder of the universe, the gratitude to God for the gifts he has granted, the presence of rice cultivation as a legacy of the ancestors, and the function of rice component for human life. This study is relevant to literary learning in a way that rice cultivation spells can be integrated into literary appreciation learning in high schools.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Aan Hasanah AU - Syihabuddin Syihabuddin AU - Vismaia Sabariah Damaianti AU - Sumiyadi Sumiyadi PY - 2019/03 DA - 2019/03 TI - Rice Cultivation Spells and Their Relevance to Literary Learning: A riffaterre semiotic analysis BT - Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 313 EP - 316 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icollite-18.2019.69 DO - 10.2991/icollite-18.2019.69 ID - Hasanah2019/03 ER -