The Analysis of Structure Exchange In Pabuat Boru Ceremony on Mandailing Culture

The thesis deal with the Structure of Conversation in Pabuat Boru Ceremony. The objective of the study was to find out the realization of the Structure conversation in Pabuat Boru ceremony and the dominant of structure exchange. This research was conducted by d qualitative method. The data of this study were conversation of Pabuat Boru ceremony. The data were taken by recording the conversation and transcribed then translated into English. The data were analyzed from three session based on the Martins theory. They were Manyapai Boru ceremony (This party asked whether the girl had been in the Kings House), Mangaririt Boru ceremony (This party are expressed whether both of the family are suitable for a relationship) and Patobang Hata ceremony (Woo Ceremony and Granting Tuhor) (Nasution : 2005). The result showed that there were 89 moves. The results showed that the move found in the conversation were k1, k2, k1f, k2f, a1, a2, ch, cl, rcl, bch, cf, rcf. The dominant structure was k1 (primary knower) where primary knower has function to provide information to the hearer in the ceremony of this conversation. It means that both of the speaker was provide more information to the hearer.