1 MR The Ideology of Dayak Ngaju Community of Central Kalimantan Implied in the Legends By

Kalimantan (hereafter called KT) which has the function as lingua franca for the community. This language is used as the symbol of unity among the Dayakese in KT and it is also used as the medium in preserving the culture as most of traditional literatures are written in DN language, such as the holly text for the Christians (Bible) and the Hindus (Panaturan). In its function to preserve culture, DN language is used to record folklore, including legends. Legends in KT are quite popular as many of them are included in ritual speech which can also be found in Panaturan, the Holly Bible for the Hinduism in KT. For that reason, the legends are mostly related to cosmogony, which consists of life values and ideologies. However, this article is proposed by framework: how systemic-functional linguistics approach which relates semiotic theory can be used to dig up the ideology implied within legends as a product of text? As the object of this article is language so that the approach and theory to find out the ideology are also the approach and theory of language that are systemic-functional linguistics and semiotics. Systemic-functional linguistics approach (Halliday) is used in the case of lexical relation of discourse-semantics and semiotics (Saussure and Barthes) which deals with signs and meanings are intended to analyze the connotative meanings. Thompson (1984) and Fikse (1990) state that the way connotative meanings work and become a social product which is believed by its community can be classified as an ideology. The data in this article are taken from six legends of DN community with setting of river. They are the legend of Tambak Baja i a place of crocodile (TB), Lauk je dia Batisi