The Tide to Mortherland for Manggaraian People

This study examines the relationship of both Manggaraian language and Manggaraian culture belonging to Manggaraian people, as reflected in the cultural conceptualization ascribed in their cognitive map regarding the tide to motherland. The study is viewed from the perspective of cultural linguistics, one of the new theoretical perspectives in cognitive linguistics exploring the relationship of language, culture, and conceptualization. The method is descriptive as the study aims to describe the cultural conceptualization of Manggaraian people regarding the tide to motherland. The result of study shows that one of the idiomatic expressions of Manggaraian language which is mostly used by Manggaraian people as the frame of reference for them in uncovering the cultural conceptualization ascribed in their cognitive map regarding the tide to motherland is Neka hemong kuni agu kalo ‘Don’t forget placenta and dadap three”. Even though the physical forms of linguistic phenomena used in the idiomatic expression seems short in its surface structure, the contents stored in the forms of linguistic phenomena used are very dense in meanings. The meanings remind Manggaraian people not to forget to their motherland, Manggarai, or their natal village when they go and live abroad because it was the first place of their presence on this earth.