| dc.description.abstract | Intentionally, in literary work, language is used to examine what happen around us
by using one of language styles such as metaphor. Metaphor, as the part of
communicative strategy in implicature contains what the speaker has said whose the
meaning is far beyond what literally said. Metaphor works on our daily routine
expressions for instance in the concept of emotion in the novel The Hunger Games
written by Suzanne Collins (2009). Metaphor is uttered in three types. There are
nominal metaphor, predicative metaphor and sentential metaphor. Since the
conception of metaphor preciously constructed by what we think and act therefore
this research is arranged to give a proof on how metaphors are constructed in our
brain and to understand the way we perceive mapping process through conceptual
metaphor in linguistics field. Meanwhile, the data are extracted from the source
which is a novel. Collected data are processed by stratifying and sorting based on
conceptual metaphor and 9 domains of emotion (Kӧvecses, 2000: 20). Then, through
applying theory of Conceptual Metaphor by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) metaphors
are identified by the mapping process between target domain and source domain.
Lastly, the Comparison theory proposed by Miller (cited in Levinson 1983) is used to
categorize the types of metaphors through comparing the features of metaphor. By
applying mixed-method through exploratory-qualitative-statistical research (Mackey
and Gass, 2005: 4) data are executed in statistic, explorations, and descriptions.
These methods determine the dominant types of metaphor, target domain and source
domain and map us into the whole story of the novel. The result of this research
shows that there are only nominal and predicative metaphors that dominantly used.
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SADNESS, FEAR, and ANGER are the dominant target domains. There are
NATURAL FORCE, FIRE, TORMENTOR, DOWN, and CAPTIVE ANIMAL
appearing as the dominant source domains. The dominant categories appear and
indicate particular tendency that is related with the story, character and what the
Katniss Everdeen does and feels in the story | en_US |
