STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF ORAL LITERATURE IN SIMEULUE

Trisosiana Lefia

doi:10.55616/jetli.v1i1.7

Abstract

This research was basically aimed to document the oral literature of the people in simeulue and to collect Simeulue’s oral literature in the form of prose to be documented in the form of text and translated into English. The general problems of this research were the structure and function of oral literature in simeulue region. Simeulue oral literature is one of the oral literature that was born and developing in the special of Aceh region. This can be reinforced by the fact that literature is told orally. Thus, this oral literature shows a lot of things that have to do with the lives of people in Simeulue itself. There are three titles analyzed, they are: Anak durhako, Luma fatu, and si mesken. The purpose of the study is to describe the issues discussed, while the benefits of this research that can contribute to the development of oral literature research, especially story telling or folklore, can be studied and used as a teaching material in school, can be used as a reference for further researchers, as well as one of the efforts of cultural preservation and entertainment especially towards the Simeulue community. The theory used in this research is the theory of oral literature, structural theory, oral literary function, translation theory and literary learning. This research uses descriptive and qualitative method.

Highlights

Literary work is an imaginative work created by the author to express feelings, ideas, hopes, experiences, and observations
Descriptive method is used because it wants to express and describes the structure and function of the three texts Simeulue's Literature consisting of Anak durhako, Luma fatu, and si mesken
Function is the use of a literary work for the reader of the work

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Introduction

Literary work is an imaginative work created by the author to express feelings, ideas, hopes, experiences, and observations. Oral literature is a story that spoken through the aesthetic rules which contains cultural and moral elements in a society. Oral literature was born and developed in a community and maintained through stories from time to time by one generation to the next. Oral literature contains many messages culture to provide knowledge such as moral, history etc for the future generations. Regarding to the plan of this research, this research will focus to research three pieces of oral litearture in Simeulue as an object research. This oral literature consists of three stories such as: 1).

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