SEMANTIK INKUISITIF DALAM CERITA RAKYAT

Oral and written traditions already existed in the past which are highlighted through various high value work. These works are processed as a medium to convey a words of advice, reprimand, satire and philosophy to be a guide to the lives of the readers. The purpose of this study was to study the inquisitive semantics in folklore. The objectives of thos study are to identify utterances that display strange behaviors that opposite the norms of life and analyse the influence of culture and common sense in folklore. This study is a qualitative study and using a exploratory design uses a corpus data that is the Anthology Book of Six Hikayat by choosing Hikayat Nakhoda Muda. The method of data collection is based on primary and secondary data while all the data is analysed based on three stages which is script semantics, resonans semantics and inquisitive semantics. Relevance Theory was using by this study. This study also includes the philosophy and common sense of the previous society, knowledge from other fields in unearthing the questions of every lexical that were using in the folklore. The result found that each lexical used in folklore has its own meaning and need to be dismantled based on inquisitive semnatic analysis