THE VALUE OF TRADITIONAL GAME CHARACTERS IN TEBINGTINGGI: AN ANTHROPOLINGUISTIC STUDIES

Abstract

The study of character values and types, traditional children's games in this digital era can be done through the discipline of anthropolinguistics. The character values contained in traditional children's games are studied through an anthropolinguistic perspective to find out the traditional games, namely balanced and bilon by looking at the situational context and the cultural context behind them. The purpose of this paper is to describe the character values contained in traditional children's games in Tebingtinggi. This type of research is a qualitative research with an anthropolinguistic approach. Based on the results of the study, it was found that there were two different character values from each type of traditional children's game. The first character value is mutual respect. The value is contained in a balanced game. The second character value is to focus on seeing opportunities to achieve goals or goals. This value is contained in the billon game.