Semiotics and Its Application in Pohutu Aadati Lihu Lo Limu Devices in Gorontalo
Abstract: This article is a
preliminary research on pohutu aadati lihu lo limu, ‘customary ceremonial
devices of lemon bath’ which focuses on sign and sign system f language
existing in the cultural device. It can be concluded that there are sign and
sign system of language based on relation between expression and content (ERC)
and sign system of language which is based on the relation of reality and its
basic kinds such as icons, indices, and symbols ([R]-[O]-[ I]. Sign and sign
system [E]- [R]-[C] have forms like [R] between E and C: that the development
of meaning and change to the secondary or connotative direction [C] only once
occurs in expression [E] = (E-R-C); in case the event the development of
meaning and change to the secondary or connotative direction [C] occurs several
times (6x) in the expression [E], the form will be like the relation of [R]
E(E-R1-C; E-R2-C; E-R3-C; E-R4-C; E-R5-C; E-R6-C] C. The meaning development of
such form of sign and sign system both at the level of first-primary
(denotative) and the level of second-secondary (connotative) occurs several times
in [E]. It can be said that the meaning development at the level of
first-primary (denotative) is synonymous with form indices and icons and the
meaning development at the level of second-secondary (connotative) is
synonymous with symbols.
Keywords: sign, sign system,
primary, secondary
Kode Jurnal: jpantropologigg160027
