THE CULTURAL CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE MANGGARAIAN SPEECH COMMUNITY REGARDING THE OMNIPOTENCE OF GOD AS SUPERNATURAL POWER

Abstract

This study described the relationship between both the Manggaraian language and Manggaraian culture belonging to the Manggaraian speech community, as manifested in their cultural conceptualization regarding the omnipotence of God as a supernatural power, in view of the perspective of cultural linguistics. The study is descriptive in nature. The results of study reveal the cultural conceptualization of Manggaraian speech community regarding the omnipotence of God as supernatural power is reflected in the verbal expressions of Manggaraian language, Morin agu Ngaran and Jari agu Dedek, as the special names or attributes indicating the omnipotence God as supernatural power. The verbal expression, Morin agu Ngaran, designates the existence of God as the Supreme and the verbal expression, Jari agu Dedek, designates the existence of God as the Creator of the world as a whole and all its contents. The verbal expressions are the cultural intangible properties inherited from the ancestors of the Manggaraian speech community designating their system of belief or local religion before they come into contact with heavenly religions, especially the Catholic religion which is adhered to by most of today’s Manggaraian speech community.