BAJO^S PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATION TOWARD THE CRUISING ACCURACY OF CULTURAL STUDIES THROUGH THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE Lilik Rita Lindayani (a), Fina Amalia Masri (b)
Universitas Halu Oleo
Abstract
This research article aimed to find out the Bajo^s philosophical interpretation toward the cruising accuracy of cultural studies through the role of language. This research used qualitative research methods through an interpretive and constructive paradigm that viewed social reality as an interactive relationship (reciprocal). The analysis was carried out by perspective. So that it depended on the quality of observation and meaning, to reveal something behind the reciprocal phenomena of language in the life of the Bajo ethnic (especially Bajo ethnic in Katela Island) and its rituals. This research found that there are two reciprocal roles of language that are interpreted philosophically through the cruising of cultural studies, namely the role of instrumental and the role of material. In its role as an instrument, language can be in the form of linguistic phenomena that support individual behavior characterized by the emergence of understanding in interaction. Meanwhile as the material role, language is tied to sign and symbols in which its convention of meaning laid on the function. Reciprocally it is assumed that the geographic location of Katela Island supports the theological and teleological ideas of the Bajo people who inhabit it.
Keywords: PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATION, CULTURAL STUDIES, ROLE OF LANGUAGE, BAJO
