Linguistic experts from UPR share the urgency and experience of their research in the field of ecolinguistics.
Unesa. ac.id SURABAYA—Indonesian Literature Undergraduate Study Program, Faculty of Languages and Arts (FBS), Surabaya State University (UNESA) presents a professor and linguistic expert from Palangka Raya University (UPR), Prof. Maria Arina Luardini in a Guest Lecture on Ecolinguistics, on Thursday, October 3 2024.
The activity which took place in the courtroom, 2nd floor, T2 FBS Building, Campus 2 Lidah Wetan was attended by students from the Indonesian Literature Study Program class of 2023 who currently in her third semester.
In the lecture session, Maria Arina Luardini explained the concept of ecolinguistics as an interdisciplinary science that combines the science of ecology or the environment with linguistics.
Echolinguistics was coined by linguists Norwegian-American (1972) in his book entitled The Ecology of Language and discusses a scientific article about language interacting with its environment, as a conventional linguistic approach.
Ecology language is related to the study of language and the environment. Language is shaped by the biological and cultural environment which will generally influence the community of speakers. He shared his experience of carrying out a number of researches in this field.
One of them is research on medicinal plants and herbal medicine or what is called RISTOJA. He researched herbal plants as his main object, with the aim of finding out the naming of herbal plants from a linguistic perspective whose specifications refer to ecolinguistics at the lexicon level. "Indonesia handed over a souvenir to Prof. Maria Arina Luardini as a sign of gratitude for her willingness to attend lectures at UNESA." src="/images/foto-04-10-2024-01-30-47-1317.png" style="height:521px; width:800px" />
The study successfully published in Scopus entitled "Eco of Ethnomedicinal Plants". From his findings, he mapped out the classification of naming herbal plants based on several categories, including in terms of color and shape.
Apart from that in terms of location, for example, naming forest ginseng and earth stake. Even in terms of plant gender categories such as female and male kalalayar or kalalayu.
Furthermore, still involved in the lens of ecolinguistic research, currently Maria Arina Luardini is researching the article about the comparison of rice in Central Kalimantan and Bali. To examine the differences and social functions of rice plant ecolinguistics.
In the future he plans to conduct research in the field of ecolinguistics in ethnoculinary and ethnocosmetics. "Don't hesitate to try researching ecolinguistics or studying things that are rarely researched," he said.
He advised students to become academic people who are sensitive to the problems around them. especially language. If speakers of traditional languages ignore their native language which is starting to be eroded by new languages and terms, then it is very possible that the extinction of traditional languages will occur along with the extinction of its speakers.
Of course it will be very hopeless to research if the language is the same Once there is no documentation, there will be no data that can be studied. "My message is not to violate theeco wisdom of a region or its research environment," he said.
Additionally, this guest lecture aims to increase insight and knowledge, as well as increase students' interest in research Innovative research topics to prepare future theses.
This activity was also attended by the Indonesian Literature Study Program Coordinator Parmin, along with lecturers from the Indonesian Literature sector, Dianita Indrawati, Arie Yuanita, Putri Retnosari.[]
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