I KADEK SANJAYA.UNDERGRADUATE THESIS.2016.pdf

The past thirty six years has been seen as increasingly rapid advances in the field of metaphor. It was experienced firstly by Lakoff and Johnsen (1980), that metaphor is a property not merely in language but as well in thought and actions effortlessly in everyday life. It enlightens the way to build an idea in order to conduct a study on metaphor aimed at finding out the concepts underlying the metaphorical expressions in the corpus by the given title Metaphorical Expressions Related to God Found in COCA : A Semantic Analysis.

The data source was taken from COCA (Corpus of Contemporary America) which is currently having more than 520 million words of text. The data were collected using one keyword in context God to generate concordances. The metaphors in the concordances were identified practically using Pragglejaz’s MIP (Metaphor Identification Procedure) (2007) and supported by the Steen’s five steeps for identifying metaphor (1999, 2009). The data were analysed primarily based on the influential framework of conceptual metaphor proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980); Lakoff (1987, 1993).

The results show that the study covers all types of the conceptual metaphor, Structural, Orientational, and Ontological Metaphors, as well as their related figure, i.e. personification. In terms of conceptual metaphor underlying the linguistic expression related to God, it was found that God is more frequently physicalized as a human. For example GOD IS A HUMAN.