AN ANALYSIS OF ORIENTATION METAPHOR ON BBC NEWS ABOUT RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

Abstract

This research is related to the study of the orientational metaphor in two news on BBC News using the theory of Lakoff and Johnson (1980), which mainly aims to describe the types and to identify the orientational metaphor are used on BBC News about Russia and Ukraine. The data were analyzed using a descriptive qualitative methodology, focused on orientational metaphor sentences in two news on BBC News about Russia and Ukraine (Why has Russia Invaded Ukraine and what does Putin want? and Russia-Ukraine: Is Internet on Verge of Break-up?) with as many as 41 sentences. It was made up of orientational metaphor components. There were 19 sentences of “Control is Up; Lack of control is down”, which obligated as the dominant orientational metaphor used in it, 8 sentences of “Virtue is Up; Lack of virtue is down”, 5 sentences of “More is Up; Less is down”, 5 sentences of “Happy is Up; Sad is down”, 3 sentences of “Healthy is Up; Sickness and death is down”, and 1 sentence of “Rational is Up; Nonrational is down”. The orientational metaphor sentences displayed help to learn English about orientational metaphors, primarily directed metaphors.