Maintenance and Development of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Minangkabau People Through Figures of Speech

摘要

This research article contained a discussion about efforts to maintain and develop an intangible cultural heritage of Minangkabau people in the speech, that is speak using figurative language. The figure of speech used by Minangkabau people is spoken in the form of a traditional phrase (proverbs). This research is a qualitative research. The main data is obtained through recording, transcribed, and translated. The main data has documents. Supporting data is obtained through observation, interview, and recording. The main data is the traditional Minangkabau expression categorized under the Minangkabau formulation as the owner of the tradition by referring to the concept of traditional Keyzer's traditional expression categorization. The study of Minangkabau speaking in figure of speech language in the form of a traditional expression is based on a language pragmatic perspective using the Jakobson, Halliday, and Oktavianus concepts. The study of the maintenance and development of the tradition speak in figure of speech language of Minangkabau people using the concepts put forward by Danandjaja, Fanany and Fanany, and Hasanuddin WS. Based on the research findings, traditional Minangkabau expressions can be categorized into at least five types, namely animal category; plants; about man; members of relatives; and limb function. These five categories are used Minangkabau people to speak and effective for the following things, namely to give a warning; give advice; expressing feelings and thoughts; affect the other person; order and or prohibit; reinforce intent; asking or begging for something; as well as satirical. Maintenance and development of intangible cultural heritage of Minangkabau people speak in figure speech of language must be done in the educational process by considering aspects of reification, manipulation, fragmentation. and individualization. Speaking in the figure of speech language as the intangible cultural heritage of the Minangkabau people is important to be preserved and developed because based on the pragmatic perspectives the language is able to function as a teaching point in developing community integrity, exercise social control, integrate shared forces that are divided for social solidarity, group identity, and maintain communal harmony.