Eco-lexicon Forms in Children Book of North Sumatran Folktales

Abstract

This present study attempts to depict the eco-lexicon form discovered in children’s North Sumatran folktales (CBNSF) book about primary food. The qualitative content analysis method was utilized as the research design. The data source was three folktales from a children’s book entitled “Asal Usul: Bunga Rampai Cerita Rakyat Sumatera Utara” under the primary theme food. The data were in the form of roots, derivative words, and phrases taken by using documentation technique. The results show that eco-lexicon forms related to primary food folktales are words (noun, verbs, and adjectives) in the form of phrase (noun phrase, and adjective phrase. Affixation in the data was found in prefix, suffix, and simulfix, which form noun and verb. Furthermore, the reference deals with biotic (plantae and animaliae) and abiotic reference. Therefore, it can be concluded that eco-lexicon in CBNSF was various.

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“…As one of applied linguistics, ecolinguistics helps expose and challenge texts, as well as contributing to the search for new ones and examining ideologies, metaphors, frames, and a range of linguistic forms of language (Adliza et Yusuf et al, 2021). It exists to address environmental issues by examining the historical and cultural languages within the human ecosystem.…”