Cultural Norms and Values Configuration in Acehnese Traditional Fishing Ritual

Abstract

This study is aimed at providing an overview of cultural reality of Khanuri la’ot discourse,
 a traditional fishing ritual activity in Aceh Province. The objectives of this study are:
 to describe the cultural norms and values configuration from an ethno-pragmatic
 perspective. This study presents the role of cultural script in the analysis of norms and
 values in cultural discourse on natural semantic meta-language theory. It is considering
 that cultural norms and values constituted rules and regulation in social communication
 interaction practices. In conducting the research, this study followed qualitative method
 with its phenomenology approach in which data were obtained from observation in a
 khanuri la’ot ritual, and in depth interview with the respondents from Acehnese fishing
 community. The result of this study showed that there are some cultural norms and
 values found on the ritual in the community. They are: (1) politeness, (2) asserting hope,
 (3) respect, (4) family atmosphere, and (5) giving advice. The configuration of these
 cultural norms and values was in accordance with the understanding of knowledge
 and wisdom in terms of khanuri la’ot ritual system. The configuration is constructed in
 low level scripts with the component of lexicons in semantic primes.