Metonymy in Traditional Marriage Discourse of Manggarai Speech Community: Cultural Linguistic Perspective

This study is intended to investigate the metonymy expressions used in traditional marriage discourse of Manggarai Speech Community (MSC). It is also intended to uncover the cultural imagery of MSC expressed in metonymy. In line with this, this study used Cultural Linguistic Perspectif (CLP) as the main theory and metonymy and discourse scenario theories as the supporting theory. Those theories were combined with the qualitative research method. Based on the data, there were thirteen (13) metonymy expressions used in traditional marriage discourse of MSC. All metonymy expressions have the idiomatic meaning. It depends on culture imagery of MSC. Therefore, based on the metonymy expressions, it was also found the cultural imagery that is appearing in traditional marriage discourse of MSC. The culture imagery of MSC based on traditional marriage discourse, such as; (1) MSC believe that the God has power to control, protect, guidance, curse ect the human being. (2) MSC also believe that the ancestors have power to protect, guidance or even to curse the human being or their children. (3) MSC believe that ancestors are still alive like living human being. (4) Like other ethnics, MSC desire good life condition when living in the world.