Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)

Metaphorical Expressions In Sasak Wedding Festivities: A study of Ganti community

Authors
Abdul Hanan, Mahyuni Mahyuni
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Abdul Hanan
Available Online March 2019.
DOI
10.2991/icollite-18.2019.35How to use a DOI?
Keywords
metaphor; wedding festivity; conversation; Ganti community
Abstract

This paper was aimed at investigating how the metaphorical expression used in the wedding festivities in Ganti community. This paper also focuses on how the people of Ganti community get to understand the meaning of the metaphorical expressions used in the wedding festivities of the same language and cultural background. A Relevance theoretical approach was used to account for the speakers’ meaning. Using purposive sampling, some conversations were selected and their metaphorical expressions identified and classified into Personality metaphors, Food metaphors, Commodity metaphors and Serving metaphors. The study found out that context plays a key role in understanding of metaphorical expressions and that the ad hoc concept of broadening could be used to account for the interpretation of the metaphorical expressions in the selected conversation during the wedding festivity “begawé nyòngkòlan” was conducted.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
March 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-691-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icollite-18.2019.35How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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