Taur-Taur Etnik Batak Simalungun: Kajian Pragmatik

Abstract

This study focuses on discussing the Taur-taur of the Batak Simalungun ethnic group: A Pragmatic Study. Taur-taur is a speech with a singing or humming tone that includes feelings of sadness, longing, or other feelings and is related to the speaker's emotions which also depend on the context of its presentation. The purpose of this study is to determine the sentence form, language function, and meaning contained in the Taur-taur speech of the Batak Simalungun ethnic group in Sirpang Sigodang Village. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive method that includes steps, data collected by interview method, recorded data transcribed into writing, then reduced and classified into several parts according to the pragmatic theory developed by Searle. The results of this study found that the taur-taur of the Batak Simalungun ethnic group in the dominant sentence form, found 57 data, namely the form of declarative expressions consisting of 13 overall taur-taur texts that include stating, explaining, and affirming speech. In the entire Simalungun ethnic taur-taur data, three speech act functions were found, namely, assertive, directive, and expressive functions in the entire Simalungun taur-taur speech text. Some meanings are general and literal, such as stating the three tendencies of locutionary meaning, the illocutionary meaning found, and doing, obeying, and reflecting on perlocutionary meaning.