Nova Fitriyana Pratiwi, R. Anggia Listyaningrum, Hardika, Zulkarnain, Ahmad, Nor Wahiza Abdul Wahat
Mataraman Java is one of the regions in western East Java. This region is an area that was once included in the Mataram kingdom. In this region, there is still a culture of parents giving advice to their children using sentences with deep meaning, so that the advice sentences are often stigmatized as a myth. In fact, if studied more deeply, many of the advice sentences that are often considered myths are facts. So it can be said that not always the advice given by parents for generations is just a myth. The problem in this study is the fading values of Javanese parental advice, because many people think that the advice cannot be trusted or is considered a myth. Therefore, there is a need for a deeper study related to the meaning of advice that is often stigmatized by the community as a myth. Javanese parents' advice has moral values that are important to preserve. If the stigma of myth on the advice is still valid today, then the true meaning of the advice will be lost. The purpose of this study is to find the meanings of advice utterances that have been passed down from generation to generation by parents to their children who are often stigmatized as myths. This research was conducted with a qualitative approach, with data collection methods of interviews, and data analysis stages in the form of data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The results of this research are 1) Many of the advice (wewaler) of old parents are actually still used today. The use of this advice is unconsciously uttered when children do something that is deemed inappropriate with the manners that exist in the area. 2) Wewaler consists of two parts, the first part is an advice/prohibition not to do something, and the next part is a more emphasized sentence such as the consequences/impacts if the prohibition in the first part is violated. The addition of the second part of the sentence in the wewaler makes the advice of Javanese parents stigmatized as a myth that is not proven to be true. © 2024 Author(s).
Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia; Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Serdang, Malaysia
