Oral Tradition in Pantun of Langkat Malay Traditional Wedding Ceremony

Muhammad Natsir (Faculty of Languages and Art, English Department of Universitas Negeri Medan)
Bakhrul Khair Amal (Lecturer in Social Science Faculty of Universitas Negeri Medan,)
Supsiloani Supsiloani (Lecturer in Social Science Faculty of Universitas Negeri Medan)
Rita Suswati (Faculty of Languages and Art, English Department of Universitas Negeri Medan)

Budapest International Research and Critics Institute-Journal (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences
Vol 2, No 1 (2019): Budapest International Research and Critics Institute February

The purpose of this study was to conduct the oral tradition in Pantun of Langkat Malay traditional wedding ceremony by using Sibarani’s theory. Oral Tradition itself is text, co-text, and context tradition. The method used in this paper was descriptive and qualitative. For collecting the data the researcher became an instrument by doing observation and unstructured interview. Analysis technique used which were transcribing, reading, comprehending, investigating, describing, and explaining. The findings of text showed theme in Pantun that uttered by telangkai contained gratitude, honor, tradition, persuasion, joke, hoping a kindness, signifying a peace, welcoming guest, enthusiastic, teasing which briefly supported by co-text and context. Co-text described paralinguistic, kinetic, proxemic, and material elements. Some context applied as follow; cultural context, social context, context of situation, and culturalcontext.