The Representation of The Tri Hita Karana Ecosophy in The Awig-awig (Customary Law) Text of Tenganan Pegringsingan Village: Critical Ecolinguistics Perspective I Gede Astawa Denpasar Academy of Tourism, Bali, Indonesia Made Budiarsa Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia I Wayan Simpen Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia Abstract—The awig-awig (Customary Law) of Tenganan Pegringsingan Village has existed since 11 th century before the Tri Hita Karana ecosophy was initiated in Bali; however, this awig-awig was able to preserve the environment, in terms of natural environment (palemahan), social environment (pawongan), and spiritual environment (parhyangan). The present study aims at investigating evaluations and assessment of the THK ecosophy employed in the awig-awig text of Tenganan Pegringsingan village. The research aspires to reveal the value of relationship of human with the natural, social, and spiritual environments. The data of the research were taken from the written text of the awig-awig. The collected data were analysed using critical ecolinguistics approach, referring to evaluation theory proposed by Stibbe (2015) and appraisal Theory by Martin and White (2005). The results showed that the awig-awig text reveals positive, ambivalent, and negative evaluations. The positive evaluations are in a line with the THK ecosophy; the ambivalent evaluation contradicts between positive and negative evaluations; whereas, the negative one contradicts to the ecosophy. Index Terms—ecosophy, Tri Hita Karana, awig-awig, critical ecolinguistics I. INTRODUCTION The presence of ecolinguistics studies is to dissect stories that surround humans. Ecolinguistics regards to ecology and language; however, both are in separate area of life (Stibbe, 2015). Sapir (in Fill & Mühlhäusler, 2001, p. 14) states that the relationship between language and environment specifically reflects the physical characteristics of the environment, the way of life, culture, the complexity of ideas, and live hood in certain environments. Furthermore, Haugen (in Fill and Mühshäusler, 2001, p. 57) states that the language environment is the language user community that characterizes the environment. In line with Haugen's opinion above, Bang and Døør (1996, p. 1) assert that language cannot be separated from its environment; language does not have meanings without the environment. Each linguistic description is also a description of the language environment. Bang and Døør's opinions were also reinforced by van Lier (2004, p. 48) who stated that in addition to dealing with the physical environment, language in depth also relates to the social and cultural environment in which humans live. Language influences how humans think about the world. A lot of things that happen around us are considered a success in improving economic development; however, it is not realized that the development is ecologically destructive. For example, the rapid development of tourism in Bali contributes a very significant foreign exchange to the country; however, this progress encourages the exploitation of nature, cultural distortion, and commercialization of holy places that should be kept away from the ideology of capitalism. As a savior of ecological damage, Bali has an “ecosophy” (philosophy of ecological harmony) that regulates human harmony with the three environmental dimensions, namely the spiritual, social and natural environment. This ecological philosophy is known as Tri Hita Karana (THK). The existence of the THK which is practiced by Hindus in Bali aims to harmonize human relations to the Almighty God, other humans, and nature so that human life is happy and prosperous (Wiana, 2007, p. 5-6; Peter and W. Wardana, 2013, p. 52). These three relationships are dialectical, depending on one another. One of the ways to restore the balance of human relations to God, to others, and to nature is to implement the concepts of the THK into the awig-awig. The awig-awig in Bali is believed to be able to regulate people's lives so that the three environments that are the source of human happiness and prosperity can be carried out harmoniously. The ISSN 1798-4769 Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 396-401, March 2019 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1002.23 © 2019 ACADEMY PUBLICATION