The discourse of Perkolong-kolong Dialogue: As a Construct of Karo Cultural Revitalization

This research was conducted to explain the construct of Karo culture revitalization in the discourse of perkolong-kolong dialogue. The main reason for this research is to explain the form of dialogue discourse based on the macrostructure contained in the dialogue carried out by perkolong-kolong in the guro-guro aron traditional ceremony based on the anthropolinguistic point of view. The research was conducted by looking at traditional ceremonial activities from the perspective of spoken dialog, using descriptive methods. It was carried out using data collection paradigms including in-depth interviews (open-ended interviews) and observation. The results found are that there are four main topics in the implementation of perkolong-kolong dialog, namely 1) the topic of religiosity, 2) the topic of morality, 3) social topics, and 4) cultural topics. In these four topics, the construct of Karo cultural revitalization is implied.