Directional in the Balinese language

• Ida Ayu Agung Ekasriadi, I Ketut Artawa Faculty of Language and Arts Education, IKIP PGRI Bali, Indonesia Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia

Palabras clave: directional, Balinese language, metaphorical meaning

Resumen

This article aims to investigate directional in the Balinese language via the reflective-introspective method. The analysis of data was done applying the distributional method. As a result, apart from the adjective beneng/menang, the preposition used to express direction in the Balinese language is the preposition ka ‘to’ and uli/uling ‘from’. In conclusion, semantically in the Balinese language directional is used based on five variables; they are the mount-sea pivot, points of the compass, the agent’s goal, and the agent’s physical position/object of the sentence