IDEATIONAL GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR IN ENGLISH POLITICS TEXT AT NEWSPAPER
WIRNA ASTUTI RAJAGUKGUK (a), SITI AISYAH GINTING (b), MEISURI (c)
English Applied Linguistics Study Program,
Postgraduate School State University Medan,
Medan, Indonesia
Abstract
this research deals with the realization of ideational metaphor of politic text in the local e-newspaper. it aims to identify the types are used in politics text, to describe how the ideational grammatical metaphor are found in politic 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 are 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.
Keywords: Ideational Grammatical Metaphor, Politics text, Newspaper
Topic: Social,Language and Cultural Education