Language Play and Religion

I Dewa Putu Wijana

Abstract


As “homo luden”, human beings fond to play using everything surround them, including the language they use to communicate. This paper is intended to describe the play on word exploited by some Hindu Dharma practitioners in order explain several aspects of religion they believe in, such as god and its power, king as its manifestation, temples or holly places, and important days the practitioners celebrate, etc. By using data collected from messages sent by my senior high WA Group, I found that in order to strengthen the religious followers’ belief, they often create syncretic expressions by connecting semantically unrelated words from several languages of either belong to the same language family, or ones that belong to historically different language groups.

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language;play;religion;syncretic

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24176/pibsi.v43i1.220

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