Anna Gustina Zainal, Karomani, Yulia Neta, Dian Kagungan
This research focuses on knowing the communication activities and women's roles in Rudat community's culture in Desa Negeri Katon. This research uses a descriptive quantitative method. Respondents in this study amounted to 97 people who were taken using the purposive sampling technique. Based on the research, it is known that women's role in maintaining Rudat culture is high. The role of women both in the process of disseminating information and in the process of implementing Rudat culture is always large, namely being involved in the three stages of implementing Rudat culture. The activeness of women's communication behaviour related to Rudat culture shows that the Kramarae Muted Group Theory (MGT) in this study is weak because in communicating the Rudat culture, women can overcome women's communication barriers which, according to MGT, are caused. With the dominance of men's ways of expression in society. The women in this study converted their unique ideas, experiences, and meanings into the content of the Rudat cultural messages they used. Also, women can play their communication dynamics when in a women's group and when in a mixed group. Also, women in the research location could answer what would happen if the silenced party did not change their experience to become the dominant language in the communication process carried out.