International Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020)

Behavioral Process in Text of I Durma Anak Lara: Systemic Functional Linguistics

Yoga Putra Semadi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Jul 2021

Abstract

Text of I Durma Anak Lara is a written text held by Balinese people. The text conveys life philosophy how to behave in the community especially in social behavior. The text is figured by I Durma as the main figure and his father as the supporting figure. This text is viewed to be very interesting to explore since there is deep moral value embed. In addition, the research also aimed to preserve the existence of the text in the community especially for the youth. The moral value is realized in behavioral process. Because of those reason, this research explored how behavioral process works in the text. The theory used to solve the problem is the theory of transitivity as part of Systemic Functional Linguistics proposed by Halliday (2014). The research used was qualitative research because this research focused on social phenomenon and the theory was used as analyze the problem. The data were taken from Balinese text written by Suwija, et.al (2019). The technique used to collect the data was syntagmatic and paradigmatic. The result of the research indicated that the text has very deep moral value that must be applied in community. The moral values were described with clauses applying behavioral process. The behaviors were performed with verbs related to physical motions which influence psychology aspects. The word lara ‘difficult’ cannot be translated from the lexicon, but it is interpreted as the success can be obtained through the difficult efforts which must be done consciously and seriously.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijsfl

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

International Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics is a Journal of linguistic, provides a forum for publishing research articles or review articles. This journal has been distributed by WARMADEWA PRESS started from Volume 1 Number 1 Year 2017. This journal encompasses original research ...