The Role of Minangkabau Prohibited Speech Act in Ujungbatu Community Environment, Rokanhulu District

This research was conducted to preserve some of the oral literature one of Folklore study, namely prohibited speech act in order not to disappear in people's life and still be preserved well by the community. Especially in Minang community in Ujungbatu area of Rokan Hulu, Riau. The purpose of this study is to describe the function of the speech utterances found in Ujungbatu area. The type of this research is qualitative study by using descriptive methods. The informants of this study were three Minang people who migrated to Ujungbatu. Data is collected through observation, interview, record and data recording techniques. Based on the findings and discussion, it was found speech abstinence prohibited in Minang community in area of Ujungbatu. This study describes the functions and meanings that exist in the prohibition speech, where the category is focused on the human life cycle and the categories found consist of: (1) as a thickening of religious emotions; 2) the projected imagination a collective that comes from a person's hallucinations; 3) as an educational tool for children or adolescents; 4) reasonable explanation.