Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in English Political Text at Newspaper

Keywords

Ideational Grammatical Metaphor, Political text, Newspaper Introduction

Abstract

This research deals with the realization of ideational metaphor of political text in the local e-newspaper. It aims to identify the types are used in political text, to describe how the ideational grammatical metaphor are found in political text at newspaper and to reason for ideational grammatical metaphor used in the politics text. Qualitative descriptive method is needed to answer this study. The data were taken from six politics news from March to April that already published online from Jakarta Post. From the analysis of 13 types of ideational grammatical metaphor, there are type 1 (9%) type 2 (12%) type 4 (8%) type 5 (10%) type 10 11%) type 13 (3%). The realization of ideational grammatical method is able to change incongruent wording into congruent wording. Metaphor expresses something indirectly, as the result, the reader difficulties are solved and able to understand the meaning of politic text.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wirna Astuti Rajagukguk
AU  - Siti Aisyah Ginting
AU  - Meisuri
PY  - 2019/12
DA  - 2019/12
TI  - Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in English Political Text at Newspaper
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership (AISTEEL 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 670
EP  - 672
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125928471
ID  - Rajagukguk2019/12
ER  -