“An Analysis of Metaphorical Discourse In the Lyrics of Didong Gayo By Arita Group

Abstract

This study deals with An Analysis of Metaphorical Discourse In the Lyrics of Didong Gayo by Arita Group.The aims of this research were to find out the types of metaphorical discourse in the lyrics of Didong Gayo by Arita Group, to find out the most dominat type in the lyrics of Didong Gayo by Arita Group.The data of this reseacrh was taken from video on youtube. This research used Lakkof and Johnson theory to identified the types of metaphor. This study applied qualitative descriptive method. The techniques for collecting data was watching the videos from youtube, listening carefully the lyrics for several times, and printing the lyrics. The data in this research was analyzed by reading the lyrics in several times, translating the lyrics into Indonesia, translating the lyrics into English, identifying the types of metaphorical discourse in the lyrics of Didong Gayo by Arita Group, underlining the lyrics that related to types of metaphorical discourse and finding out the most dominant type of metaphorical discourse. It was found there were 51 metaphors, 15 Structural metaphors (29.41%), 10 Orientational metaphors (19.61%) and 26 Ontological metaphors (50.98%) in this research. The most dominant type was Ontological metaphor, the total was 26 metaphors (50.98%).