FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE OF LARVUL NGABAL CUSTOMARY LAW TEXT ON KEI SPEECH COMMUNITY

The text of Larvul Ngabal customary law is a text of Kei speech community cultural product. It represents cultural convention of the speech community to organize orderly and civilized social life. The analysis of ?gurative language meaning in this text use ?gurative concepts of Dancygier and Sweetser (2014), Clark (2013), and the concept of metaphor by Saeed (2016). The research approach in this study is qualitative approach with method of text analysis by Lehtonen (2000). Based on the research theoretical concepts and approaches, in this text, there are three norms of life, namely the normsofprotectionofliferight, protectionofwomenright, andprotectionofpropertyright. Toexpress the three basic norms, this text uses symbolic ?gurative language originating from the human body. The ?gurative language found in this text consists of: (1) metaphor, (2) metonymy, (3), sarcasm, and (4) hyperbole. Based on the phenomenon of ?gurative language in the text, it can be said that this text uses ?gurative language based on social cognition in Kei speech community