The Study Of Figurative Language In Gayonese’s Traditional Melengkan

Abstract

This study deals with “The Study of Figurative Language in Gayonese’s Traditional Melengkan”. The aims of this research were to find out the types of figurative languages in Gayonese's traditional melengkan, discover the dominant types of figurative languages and find out the reasons why these types of figurative languages are used in Gayonese's traditional melengkan. Data from this study were taken from the speaker’s recording of Melengkan and supported by the interview with him. The data of this research were figurative languages in Melengkan used in Wedding ceremony of Gayonese’s traditional tradition. The data were analyzed by transcribing the recording of Melengkan and classifying the result by the interview. Data collection techniques through observation, recording of the speaker and interviewing, then the data is transcribing and then translating into Indonesian and then into English, identifying the types of figurative languages that exist in Gayonese's traditional melengkan. There were found that’s 19 data, simile simile of 2 or 10,52%, metaphor of 3 or 15,78%, or repetition of 5 or 26,32%, hyperbole of 6 or 31,60% and personification as much as 3 or 15,78% and hyperbole was the dominant type of figurative language in melengkan Gayonese's traditional tradition.