This article aims to reveal the locutionary and illocutionary forms of utterances made by the religious figure Ustaz Khalid Zeed Abdullah Basalamah, commonly known as Ustaz Basalamah, about the prohibition of wayang. To analyse the data, listening and recording techniques were used from the recorded question and answer between Ustaz Basalamah and the congregation regarding the prohibition of wayang. At the data analysis stage, the distributional method was used by emphasizing the lingual unit of the language that was the target of the research. Through various stages of analysis, the researcher found two of the five types of illocutionary speech acts in Searle's (1969) theory of Ustaz Basalamah's utterances. The two types of illocutionary speech acts are assertive and directive. In the assertive illocutionary act, the researcher found at least five utterances that fall into that category. Meanwhile, four utterances are included in the type of directive illocutionary speech act.

This study aims to reveal lexical and cultural meanings of neloni and describes the culinary terms within the ritual in Malang district. Neloni is a ritual for three months old baby in Java. The data source are the society of Desa Pandanajeng, Tumpang, Malang, East Java and other relevant literary sources. The data in this study is the information of lexical and cultural meanings of neloni along with the culinary terms in words or phrases within the ritual. The researchers utilize interview techniques to obtain the data and record the interview. In analyzing the data, the researchers employ agih method andBagi Unsur Langsung (BUL) technique. The results uncover that neloni has lexical meaning as three months celebration for the baby’s birth and the mommy’s pregnancy. Meanwhile, the cultural meaning reflects three kindness from God. They are character, ability, and feeling/emotions. The cultural terms involved in the ritual are ayam keting, jangan lodheh, jangan petang werno, jenang sengkolo, kuluban, trancam, tumpeng kuning, tumpeng putih and urap. Each culinary terms have lexical and cultural meanings.   Keywords: Culinary term; ritual of neloni; ethnolinguistics