Batubara Malay’s Proverbs and Local Working Ethos

Autor:	Bahren Umar Siregar, T. Thyrhaya Sinar, Robert Sibarani, Wan Anayati
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Literature Enthusiasm Teamwork business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Philosophy Islam Ethical values language.human_language Ethos Punctuality Aesthetics language business Relation (history of concept) media_common Malay
Zdroj:	IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science. 19:25-29
ISSN:	2279-0837 2279-0845
DOI:	10.9790/0837-191232529
Popis:	This article studies Batubara Malay’s proverbs and their local working ethos. Sixproverbscontaining some values from advice and motivation to cooperation constituted samples. The data sources for this study weresamples of proverbs or sayings – commonly used by local speakers. Islamic Working Ethos (IWE) as proposed by Rokhman (2010) was used to make assessment to the working ethos. Results of the study revealed that based on their forms and meanings the working ethos could be realised by either in literal or non-literal forms and meanings and based on the frequency there were 19 word-list with their distribution range from 10 to 55 tokens. In terms of conceptual mapping, it was found that the ethical values were mapped on human beings, plants, and animals. The working values were mostly in concordance with hard-working with special reference to preservation, enthusiasm, studying hard; with discipline which was related to punctuality; with responsibility within its specific properties of being loyal, honest, sincere, patient, austere, empathetic, and anxious; and with cooperationwithin certain relation to team work, consultation, low profile, support, humble appearance, and righteous doings.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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