THE RELATION OF FORM AND ASPECT OF NON-VERBAL SYMBOL OF GAWAI DAYAK RITUAL WITH DAYAK SOCIETY LIFE TRADITION AND ITS USE IN REGIONAL LITERATURE LEARNING IN WEST KALIMANTAN

Gawai Dayak ritual is one of cultural products of Dayak tribe. The intended Dayak tribe in this study is Dayak tribe who lives in West Kalimantan. On its performance, this ritual is dominated with various symbols. Whereas what becomes the focus of this study is non-verbal symbol that is physical symbol, symbol that can be seen or even be touched. Through this study, the writer is going to see how is the relation of the form and aspect of symbol with the life tradition of Dayak society in West Kalimantan. Aspect in this study relates to non- verbal symbols as a signal which is signing something, whose presence contains a certain meaning as a cultural system of a group of society. Then, the writer analyzes how is the use of the result of the study on regional literature learning and its kind, remembering that all this time there has not been some utilization of local context to enrich Regional Literature learning and other similar lessons. This study uses descriptive qualitative method with semiotic approach. Whereas the data used in this study is Gawai Dayak ritual. The data source in this study is ritual process of Gawai Dayak. The data collecting technique in this study uses observation and recording technique. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License