The Contrastive Analysis of Kinship Terminology in Cina Benteng and Hakka (Khek)

Abstract

Kinship terminology is a way of addressing someone who is bound to themselves because of blood, descent, and marriage. Kinship terminology is culturally bounded. Kinship systems are widely discussed in different areas of humanity studies, such as linguistics studies. Terminologies in the kinship system of both Cina Benteng and Khek will be used as the linguistic evidence of this research. Since it is an ethnolinguistics study, this research attempts to analyze the kinship terminology of two similar ethnic communities, Cina Benteng and Hakka (Khek) in Tangerang through the ethnolinguistic point of view. It aims to provide the kinship terminology in Cina Benteng and Khek and also to contrast the similarities and differences between the term of address and term of reference in the chosen communities. This research will utilize the kinship theory from Nanda, Burling, and Lounsbury. The data of this research are being collected by doing interviews, recording the interview, taking notes, dan observe the site. This research revealed that even though Cina Benteng and Khek communities belonged to the same root, they have some contrast in their referring and addressing system of kinship.

Keywords

• cina benteng
• ethnolinguistics
• khek
• kinship