CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR IN POLITICAL NEWS OF
THE JAKARTA GLOBE ONLINE NEWSPAPER
A Thesis
Submitted to Adab and Humanities Faculty
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for
The Degree of Strata I
FIKY FIRMANSYAH 1110026000064
ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT ADAB AND HUMANITIES FACULTY STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH JAKARTA 2017
ABSTRACT
Fiky Firmansyah, Conceptual Metaphor in Political News of the Jakarta Globe Online Newspaper. Thesis: English Letters Department, Letters and Humanities Faculty, State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, January 2017.
By referring to George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s theory on conceptual metaphor, this research is aimed to identify the types of conceptual metaphor in the Jakarta Globe online newspaper, as well as to describe the conceptualization of politics that is occurred and how the concepts of politics is highlighted. The method of this research is qualitative method. The research questions will be answered in analytical description. The data are obtained from compilation of online news in thejakartaglobe.com, since 1 July 2014 to 9 July 2014 (presidential election 2014). The timeline of the corpus is based on three main phase of the presidential election: campaign, cooling down, and the election phase. The metaphorical expression is obtained by using data card and further will be analyzed based on George Lakoff and Mark Johnson theory, which is elaborated in term of source domain and target domain to understand the concept. Based on the data obtained, there are 27 data findings which contain 19 structural metaphors, 6 ontological metaphors, and 2 orientational metaphors. The findings proven that the structural metaphor is the most metaphor occurred by types; whereas politics is described mainly in three conceptual domains, which are war, competition, and journey; and also highlights different concept in majority of conceptual metaphor. Keywords: Semantics, Metaphor, Conceptual Metaphor, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.
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DECLARATION
I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma of the university or other institute of higher learning, except where due acknowledgment has been made in the text.
Jakarta, April 10th 2017
Fiky Firmansyah
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT