Semiotic Analysis of Mandailing’s Traditional House Bagas Godang

Abstract

The Objective of this research were to find out the kinds and the meaning of semiotic of Mandailing’s Traditional House Bagas Godang in Panyabuangan City especially Pidoli Dolok Village. This research used qualitative method in accordance with the theory of Charles Sanders Pierce and based on the semiotic fields especially Culture code such as architecture and ornamnet. The descriptive technique was carried out in analyzing data by Huberman and miles with the steps are reduction, display and verification data. The source of data was taken from the people who lives in Pidoli Dolok by Observation and interview. The finding of this research showed there are only six kids of semiotic in Bagas Godang are: Sinsign (1), Legisign (2), Icon (3), Index (1), Symbol (13), and decisgn (2) and the meaning of semiotic kind are conveying their hoping, advicing, rules/norm and govermet system with what have been presented in Bagas Godang (Symbol). It can be concluded that the following: there are three kind of semiotic from use of semiotic Bagas Godang as the sign: Representamen the meaning by human, object which present or is within “cognition” a person or group of people and interpretent of someone based on the object it sees fit with the fact. Based on the analysis there some meaning which as the rules of life for mandaling people, an unique architecture to replace the things in universe into sign.