The Meaning of The Phrase Prohibition in Minangkabau in Suayan, District of Akabiluru, Lima Puluh Kota Regency

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Language is the identity of a region which includes the culture and traditions of the people. The traditions of people will not disappear, because of ancestral relics that are very trusted by some people in general. One of those traditions is the phrase prohibition. The belief of the community is superstitious, which provides educational values, and its own meaning. The phrase prohibitions are usually conveyed in classical language so as not to offend others. By the times, the position of the phrase prohibition has faded, because most of young people no longer believe the truth of the phrase prohibition, but for the elderly, and adults still believe the phrase prohibition, as in Kenagarian Suayan, Akabiluru District,LimaPuluh Kota Regency. The phrase prohibition has been studied by several researchers, but it is still different in the object under study. Researchers are interested in examining the phrase prohibition with the title “The Meaning of The Phrase Prohibition in Suayan, District of Akabiluru, LimaPuluh Kota Regency”, because this research gave rise to something new, namely the level of trust of the people of Suayan towards the phrase prohibition. The purpose of this research is to describe the function, meaning, and level of belief of the community in the phrase prohibition. The phrase is a short sentence that has been abstracted from a long sentence(Mana and Samsiarni, 2016: 42), whereas according to Pateda(2001:230) the phrase is advice, and rules of behavior. All of them discuss the phrase prohibition, but the level of public confidence in the phrase prohibition is not visible from the opinion before, then the refinement comes to fix the opinion of the Retor(2014: 2) explains that belief is an idea or description adopted by the community about something. Therefore, beliefs based on knowledge, opinions and beliefs that are influenced by one's emotional sense, beliefs arise in the attitudes or thoughts adopted by someone about a picture of something. This type of research is a descriptive qualitative research.According to Moleong (2012: 4),Qualitative research is research that produces descriptive data in the form of words, both written and oral from people and observable behavior. The source of research data is the Suayan community. The researches data are the phrase prohibitions expressed by the Suayan community, with the data obtained by 22 phrases, and are grouped according to the function, meaning, and level of confidence of the Suayan community towards the phrase prohibited. The research instrument was assisted by the format, interview guidelines, cell phones, and stationery. Data collection techniques are interviews, records, notes, and questionnaires. Testing validity of data is checking triangulation ofvalidaty data that uses something else. The data in the analysis are (1) describing data into written language, (2) translating data into Indonesian, (3) grouping data related to the phrase prohibition, (4) analyzing the data that has been identified based on the
function of the phrase prohibition, (5) analyze the meaning of the phrase prohibition in KenagarianSuayan,Akabiluru District, Lima Puluh Kota Regency, (6) analyze the level of community beliefs about the phrase prohibition, and (7) draw conclusions and write reports. Based on data analysis and discussion,finding research have been found. First, the function of the phrase prohibition found inKenagarianSuayanAkabiluru District, Lima Puluh Kota Regency, which functions to educate a total of 18 phrases, and as a thickening of emotions or beliefs amounting to 4 phrases.Second, the meaning of the phrase prohibition that researcher found in KenagarianSuayan, Akabiluru District, Lima Puluh Kota Regency, which is contained in the meaning of the actual prohibited, and implied expression that expressed by the people inNagariSuayan in daily life. Third, Based on 22 phrases prohibition, and the total number of respondents, it can be seen that the results of the level of people’sconfidence in the phrases prohibition are, 43% are not sure, 34% are somewhat certain, and 24% are very confident of all the phrases prohibition. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the phrases prohibition in general have the function of educating, and the Suayan community is still unsure of the phrases prohibition. For the people, the phrases prohibition can be maintained, so that the phrase prohibition can be preserved in people's daily lives. For further researchers, it can be able to develop and explore on the phrases prohibition.