WAR Metaphors in Indonesian-English Political Discourse

DOI

10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.59How to use a DOI?

Keywords

conceptual metaphor; WAR metaphor; translation strategy; political discourse

Abstract

This study is aimed at identifying WAR metaphors in Indonesian political discourse and their translation into English. The data were obtained from Tempo Magazine, during January to March 2018,  with 29 political articles covering the political elections of 2018 and 2019. To discover the concept of metaphor, this study applied Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980). Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP), formulated by Pragglejaz Group (2007), was used in this study to avoid intuition during metaphor identification. This study found that WAR metaphor was positively pervasive in Indonesian political discourse. There were 49 metaphorical war expressions with total 239 occurances. A cross-mapping from war domain to politics domain were soldier to political candidate, war strategy to campaign strategy, battleground to political elections, target to power, alliance to parties coalition, and weapon to votes. The conceptual mapping highlights politics as a battle for power and hides politics as an attempt to proper people. The implemented strategies in the transslation were 162 by providing the same metaphors, 29 by providing a different metaphor, 40 by providing literal paraphrases, and 8 by omiting the metaphors.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Norita Purba
AU  - Sufriati Tanjung
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - WAR Metaphors in Indonesian-English Political Discourse
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference of Communication Science Research (ICCSR 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 270
EP  - 274
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.59
DO  - 10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.59
ID  - Purba2018/07
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