Abstract:
The objective of this research was to find out the types of grammatical metaphor
in experiential function that are mostly used in both of the articles and to describe
the distinguish of abstract written in linguistic and science article. The descriptive
qualitative method was applied in this study of grammatical metaphor specifically
in experiential function in the abstract written in linguistic and science. The
findings were shown that the material processes in those types were most
frequently applying on the linguistic and science abstract. It was showed that there
were 12 categories (7 material processin linguistic article or 77.8% and 5 material
processin science article or 62.5%) out of 35 categories of the sentences from both
abstract selected. The use of from material process was dominating the abstract
of linguistic and science, and it had been as the characteristics of the abstract in
the experiential function specially in material process. The results of this research
could be extra information in studying grammatical metaphor that focused on
ideational metaphor that is experiential function and logical function,
interpersonal metaphor, and textual metaphor.
