ABSTRACT

Materializing colonial heritage in Goa Belanda is an analysis of material culture within the Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) perspective. This study was conducted to identify the experiential, interpersonal and textual function and meaning of a cultural material object and to find out the meaning of colonialism in terms of space and time. This study uses descriptive research and uses a multimodal approach with an SFL perspective as its analytical approach. The purpose of the study is to explain the meaning and interpretation in the form of material, especially buildings. In representing material objects, the results of this study are that the key meaning is in the narrative and the description of the material landscape object itself. The values of meaning and interpretation that arise from material objects are colonial-era romances that are represented byways of communicating relating to the context of time and space. In other words, the colonial heritage was the meaning of the material object.