SEMIOTICS ANALYSIS ON COLOR SYMBOLS OF KARONESE ULOS

Abstract

Semiotics is concerned with everything that can be taken as a sign. It looks at culture broadly as a language considered as a sign system, or the ways signs and language map onto culture as a whole. The Karonese Batak has important elements found in the Karonese tribe, such as a language called Karonese language, clothing that has a more dominant color of red and black and is filled with gold. The type of clothing that is famous in the Karonese tribe is Uis where each color has a symbol of the uis. This study identified the semiotic sign types of color symbols in Karonese ulos or uis, and the meanings of color symbols in Karonese ulos or uis. The findings of this research are: There are 9 legisign types, 5 qualisign types and only 1 sinsign type in Karonese uis. Meanwhile, legisign is the most dominant semiotic sign type for Karonese uis which means that the sign of symbolic colour in Karonese uis is functioning in a society based convention or approved by the local community which in this case is Karonese people. There are 8 connotative meanings and 7 denotative meanings. This can be concluded that connotative meaning is the most dominant type of colour meanings. This indicates that the colour meaning of Karonese uis shows the Karonese people’s emotions and attitudes towards what the colour has. Theoritically, this research can be useful to inform and make references material acquiring knowledge and understanding about semiotic, especially Karonese uis symbols for other researchers who are interested in the same field.