This article aims to describe the exploration of NTT's culture in the novels by Gerson Poyk as one of the national writers, Angkatan `66. This NTT-born author writes novel literary works by raising cultural traditions as a characteristic, the identity of the NTT people, cultural traditions with the values ​​contained in them that are lived and preserved, although some have begun to disappear by the influence of modern culture. The uniqueness of Gerson Poyk is that he is able to raise the cultural background of NTT with its vast territory into his novels with a straightforward, expressive, and high aesthetic style of expression. Not only limited to cultural traditions but tourism development, agricultural cultivation, commercial crops, livestock, fisheries, handicrafts. Through a number of his novels, Gerson Poyk explores the culture that exists in the life of the people of NTT which can be used as a character of Indonesian culture. This research uses the theoretical basis of sociology of literature with the emphasis that the novel is actually a form of socio-historical embodiment, where novels can witness paintings of social and social reality. history, into a genre that is close to social phenomena. Using qualitative research methods in literature studies can describe, understand, and explain the exploration of NTT culture in the novel by Gerson Poyk. Exploration of NTT culture as a character of Indonesian culture in Gerson Poyk's novel, 1) exploring the cultural elements of the knowledge system towards the love of the NTT people to study, 2) exploring the cultural elements of the kinship and kinship system of the love of the NTT people to maintain relationships, 3) exploring the cultural elements of the system. livelihoods towards the love of the people of NTT doing work, 4) exploring the cultural elements of the religious system towards the love of the people of NTT in carrying out religious traditions, and 5) exploring elements of art culture towards the love of the people of NTT in the arts and culture.

This study raises the educational value of the utterances of the Ka Nggua ritual carried out in the life of the Paumere people. This study aims to describe the educational value of the Ka Nggua ritual utterances carried out in the life of the Paumere people which are beneficial for the education of values, character and for the preservation of culture for the local community. The results of this study explain that the educational values contained in the ritual utterances of Ka Nggua, namely (1) the value of religious education as the main value in the life of the Pau mere people, (2) the value of moral education which teaches honesty, sincerity and openness, (3) ethical values teach self-awareness, sensitivity, adaptability, responsibility (4) cultural values that teach respect, inherit and preserve cultural customs, and (5) social education values that teach the nobility of cooperation, mutual cooperation, mutual assistance, mutual respect, cooperation, maintaining unity and brotherhood.

This article describes the diversity of languages ​​formed by the development of society in various aspects of life which includes various social activities, such as trade, government, health, education, and religion. The variety of languages ​​has functions such as the variety of languages ​​used by fish sellers in Oka market, Lamawalang, Larantuka District, East Flores Regency which grows and develops especially among speakers of the fish seller community. This variety of languages ​​can be found when fish sellers offer their fish to buyers where there is language contact, between Indonesian and local languages. The functions of various languages ​​used by fish sellers in the Oka Lamawalang market, Larantuka District, East Flores Regency with the Oka Lamawalang dialect include (1) instrumental (directive) functions, such as seducing, convincing, and asking, (2) interactional or interaction functions, such as asking , forms of interaction in the form of rejection and forms of agreement interaction, (3) representational or representational (declarative) functions such as showing and expressing, (4) personal functions, such as joy and disappointment.