Despite the glamour of the tourism sector, agriculture remains one of the economic foundations and livelihoods for Balinese people. However, as globalization and modernization permeate Balinese society, agricultural practices and the associated lexicon face erosion. This study explores the shift and loss of agricultural lexicon in four villages of Tabanan, a regency in Bali known as the rice granary area, to predict the future of Balinese agriculture through an ecolinguistics approach, incorporating James Scott's concepts of techne and metis. This research aims to document the changing agricultural vocabulary and analyze its implications for the sustainability of Balinese farming traditions. Utilizing an ecolinguistics framework, we investigate how linguistic changes reflect broader environmental and social transformations. Using techne (practical knowledge) and metis (intelligence) as analytical lenses, we examine how environmental damage and modern problems have changed or lost the lexicon. Our findings indicate that the loss of specific agricultural terms corresponds with a decline in traditional practices as well as the sustainability of agriculture, posing a threat to the island's agroecological balance. This means that ecolinguistics, along with the value of techne and metis, can offer more useful strategies for nature than just creating databases. These strategies can assist in improving adaptive responses to current problems in agriculture.

Authors:
Kuntayuni Kuntayuni, Universitas Warmadewa, Indonesia
Dewa Ayu Kadek Claria, Universitas Warmadewa, Indonesia
Radha Andhra Swari, Universitas Warmadewa, Indonesia

About the Presenter(s)
Kuntayuni is currently a lecturer of linguistics, literature, and communication at the Faculty of Letters, Universitas Warmadewa.

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