Language Meanings and Symbols in the Traditional Wedding Ceremony of Malay Deli

Abstract

The ethnography study on the social life and culture or ethnic such as tradition, behavior, law, art, religion and language is a way of documenting and publishing a society. This study observed directly to the use of language in Malay Deli, Indonesia. It covers the grammatical, psychological aspects and social structure of wedding ceremony in Malay Deli Tradition. In the case of this study, data were collected from the poems and proverbs that have connections with the processional events of wedding ceremony in Malay Deli Tradition.