THEMATIC STRUCTURES AND THEIR DEVELOPMENTS OF THE PANTUN IN WEDDING CEREMONY OF THE DELI MALAY

This study deals with thematic structures and their developments of the pantun in the Deli Malay Wedding Ceremony. The specific objectives of this study are (1) to investigate the elements of thematic structures used in pantun of the Deli Malay wedding ceremony, (2) to investigate the types of thematic developments used in pantun of the Deli Malay wedding ceremony, (3) to describe the way of thematic structures and their developments used in pantun of the Deli Malay wedding ceremony. This study is qualitative research, the data are the utterances which obtained from the mediators in hailing the groom written in Bahasa Indonesia and the source of data are the pantun used in the Deli Malay wedding ceremony, handy cam is used as the instrument to collect the data needed. Some findings are drawn, firstly there are four elements of thematic structures, namely marked simple theme and unmarked simple theme, marked multiple themes and unmarked multiple themes. Secondly there are six types of thematic developments which used in Malay pantun of wedding ceremony namely: constant theme, constant rheme, linear theme, linear rheme, split rheme, and zig-zag. The last is the marked simple theme and zig-zag are dominantly used in pantun of the Deli Malay wedding ceremony.