BANJARESE IDEOLOGIES PORTRAYED IN SI PALUI

Abstract

Si Palui is a short, funny story written in Bahasa Banjar and has been published dail in Banjarmasin Post since 1971. Before being published in the newspapers, Si Palui haactually been a well-known anonymous folklore, usually told by parents to children as a betime story or by elders to youngsters to teach values. Despite its popularity, studies about SPalui are not that many (see Natasha, 2004 and Suryadi, 2011)none of them are conducted in the area of functional linguistics. One area of linguistics that has always been a hot topic of research is about how a language and ideologies of a society are intertwined. Fairclough (1995:73) stated that language is a material form of ideology, and language is invested by ideology. Thus, this research is aimed to find Banjarese ideologies through three texts of Si Palui. To find ideologies in Si Palui, the writer uses Halliday’s ideational metafunction. The analysis results in descriptions of ideologies of Banjarese in two domains: shared ideas in social interactions among Banjarese people and women’s positions in Banjarese culture.