Simbolic meaning of manggarain funeral ceremony

The aim of this study was to examine the symbolic meaning of the Manggarain funeral ceremony. To obtain the data, interview, direct observation, and documentation study were conducted. Then, following semiotic and pragmatic theories, the data were anlyzed through some stages namely data reduction, data display and verification. The results of analysis revealed that the Manggarain funeral ceremony has social and religious meanings or so-called socio-theo relation establishment. Further studies are suggested to deeply reveal the metaphoric language used in the funeral ceremony in question.