Metaphor Analysis on Article of Legislative Election in The Jakarta Post  

Oleh:

Ginting, Rehulina Br ; Sinambela, Erika ; Sihite, Jubilizer

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah nasional
Dalam koleksi: The Episteme: Journal of Linguistics and Literature vol. 2 no. 1 (Aug. 2015)
Topik: Metaphor; syntactic metaphor; semantic metaphor
Fulltext: 1.Metaphor Analysis.pdf (264.36KB)

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The writer analyze the metaphor on article of legislative election in The Jakarta Post, the writer gets the conclusion as follows: There are two classes of metaphor, namely syntactic metaphor, and semantic metaphor. Syntactic metaphor is divided into four (4) types, namely noun metaphor, verb metaphor, adjective metaphor and adverb metaphor, while semantic metaphor is divided into three (3) types, namely concretive metaphor, animistic metaphor, and humanizing metaphor. There are twenty one (21) articles in The Jakarta Post from the given sample contains twenty one (21) articles consist of seven types of metaphor. The following is the result of the research: noun metaphor is fourteen (14), verb metaphor is seven (7), adjective metaphor is eleven (11), adverb metaphor is two (2), concretive metaphor is twenty seven (27), animistic metaphor is two (2), and humanizing metaphor is five (5).The most dominant types of metaphor in the election article of The Jakarta Post is concretive metaphor. It shows that in the article, people always use a concrete term to talk about an abstract thing; it makes the readers more understand and interest about the information or the messages which is delivered.

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