Jurnal Pesastra (Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra)

Narrative Structure and Local Wisdom Values in Muna Children's Stories: A Study of Pa Ode bhe Nosi and Kafotalo Kosibaribarihantomu

Wa Ode Nirwana — 2026-05-28

This study aims to analyze the narrative structure and local wisdom values in two Muna children’s stories, namely Pa Ode bhe Nosi (Pak Ode dan Nosi) by Nurjannah Tamil and Kafotalo Kosibaribarihantomu (Kemenangan Bersama) by Rikar Karim. The study employs a library research design with a descriptive qualitative approach. The data consist of narrative excerpts, dialogues, and descriptions of events purposively selected from the two texts. Data collection was conducted through intensive reading, note-taking, coding, and classification based on William Labov’s narrative structure model, while local wisdom values were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The findings reveal that both stories contain complete narrative components, namely abstract, orientation, complicating action, evaluation, resolution, and coda. Pa Ode bhe Nosi highlights the values of responsibility, care, affection, cultural honor, and commitment to preserving the traditional horse attraction performance, whereas Kafotalo Kosibaribarihantomu represents the values of mutual cooperation, perseverance, social care, friendship, and the preservation of the traditional game kalego. Both stories demonstrate that modern Muna children’s literature is not merely a medium of entertainment but also a text that organizes cultural values through coherent narrative patterns. This study offers a synthetic reading model that connects William Labov’s narrative structure with the transmission of local wisdom, thereby strengthening studies of regional children’s literature, character education, and the preservation of Muna culture.

Language Acquisition of Children Aged 2.0–2.6 Years in Lapolea Village: A Psycholinguistic Study

Asni Sasnita — 2026-06-05

This study aims to describe the language acquisition of children aged 2.0–2.6 years in Lapolea Village from a psycholinguistic perspective, focusing on phonological, morphological, phrasal, sentential, and semantic development. The study employed a descriptive qualitative design with a case study approach involving two children: Azahra Riskiani, aged 2 years and 6 months, and Muhamad Rizki Azmi Rahman, aged 2 years and 5 months. The data consisted of the children’s natural utterances collected through observation, listening, note-taking, audio recording, and contextual interviews with parents over a two-week period. Data were analyzed through transcription, reduction, coding based on linguistic categories, data presentation, interpretation, and verification through parental confirmation. The findings indicate that both children had acquired the basic vowels /a/, /i/, /u/, /e/, and /o/, most consonant sounds, free morphemes, nominal phrases, verbal phrases, adjectival phrases, prepositional phrases, as well as declarative, imperative, interrogative, and simple negative sentence forms. Azahra demonstrated relatively longer and more complex utterances, whereas Rizki predominantly used single words or short phrases; however, the intended meanings of his utterances remained comprehensible. Semantically, both children were able to adjust their utterances according to contextual meanings. The study concludes that the language acquisition of both children is within the expected developmental range for their age, although individual differences are evident and influenced by articulatory maturity and the intensity of social interaction. This research contributes empirical data on child language acquisition in a rural setting, particularly in Lapolea Village, thereby enriching psycholinguistic studies of Indonesian children and providing useful references for parents, early childhood educators, and researchers in child language development.

Slang in the Comment Column of TikTok Social Media Account @FADILJAIDI

Isna — 2026-06-06

This study aims to identify the forms, contextual meanings, communicative functions, and scientific contribution of slang used in the comment column of the TikTok account @fadiljaidi. The study employed a qualitative descriptive design with a sociolinguistic and digital discourse perspective. The data consisted of documented comment excerpts containing slang in several @fadiljaidi videos uploaded in November 2025. Data were collected through observation, documentation, screenshot archiving, and note-taking. Data analysis was conducted by reducing the corpus, coding slang units, classifying morphological forms, interpreting contextual meanings, and comparing the findings with prior studies and relevant theories. The results show that slang appears in acronyms, abbreviations, contractions, clippings, reversal forms, informal pronouns, phonological variation, and phatic expressions. The findings also reveal four dominant functions: creating intimacy, producing humor, evaluating the creator's action, and strengthening digital group identity. The study concludes that slang in TikTok comments is not merely a nonstandard language practice but a patterned form of digital vernacular creativity. The scientific contribution of this study lies in the typological-functional synthesis of TikTok slang that links word-formation processes, contextual meaning, and digital social affiliation in Indonesian sociolinguistic studies.

Indonesian Sentence Patterns of Five-Year-Old Children at Dharma Wanita Maperaha Kindergarten, Sawerigadi District, West Muna Regency

Sarmel — 2026-06-06

The ability to construct sentences is a key indicator of syntactic development in early childhood language acquisition, particularly in bilingual environments where children negotiate the use of a local language and Indonesian. This study aims to describe the Indonesian sentence patterns produced by five-year-old children at Dharma Wanita Maperaha Kindergarten (TK Dharma Wanita Maperaha), Sawerigadi District (Kecamatan Sawerigadi), West Muna Regency (Kabupaten Muna Barat). This research employed a qualitative descriptive field design. The data consisted of children's oral utterances obtained from nine five-year-old children through observation, note-taking, and audio recording. The data were transcribed, reduced, classified, and analyzed using syntactic function analysis based on the categories of subject and predicate in Indonesian grammar. The findings show three major patterns: Subject (S), Predicate (P), and Subject-Predicate (S-P). Predicate-centered utterances were the most dominant, indicating that children tend to prioritize actions, commands, prohibitions, or communicative intentions while omitting explicit subjects. Subject-only utterances appeared as nominal or pronominal fragments, whereas S-P utterances showed the emergence of minimal complete clauses. The study concludes that the syntactic development of five-year-old children in this context is still dominated by elliptical and context-dependent structures, but it has moved toward the formation of more complete clauses. The scientific contribution of this study lies in proposing a three-layer mapping of early Indonesian syntax in a bilingual kindergarten context: nominal topic fragments, predicate-centered elliptical utterances, and emerging minimal clauses.

The Representation of Women’s Resilience and the Construction of Moral Values in the Novel Soe Isabel by M. Tiyasaa

Wa Ode Risnayanti — 2026-06-07

This study aims to describe the representation of women’s resilience and analyze the construction of moral values in the novel Soe Isabel. The research employs a descriptive qualitative design using a moral approach and the perspective of female character representation. The data source is the novel Soe Isabel, published by Yrama Widya in 2019, while the data consist of words, phrases, sentences, dialogues, and narrative passages that reflect women’s resilience and moral values. Data were collected through reading, marking, and note-taking techniques using data cards as research instruments. The data were analyzed through identification, reduction, classification, presentation, interpretation, and conclusion drawing. The findings reveal that women’s resilience is represented through the protagonist’s endurance in facing family loss, her ability to cope with loneliness, her determination in making life choices and maintaining personal beliefs, and her willingness to establish empathetic social relationships. Moral values are constructed through three major forms of relationships: the religious relationship between humans and God, the personal relationship with oneself, and the social relationship with others. The study concludes that morality in Soe Isabel is not presented merely as a set of normative teachings but as a process of self-formation shaped by experiences of grief, acceptance, perseverance, and compassion. This research contributes to the development of Indonesian literary studies by integrating moral value analysis with the representation of women’s resilience, thereby broadening the understanding of morality as a narrative process and a gendered experience in literary works.