An Analysis of Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Dear President Obama Book

Abstract

This study deals with the use of ideational grammatical metaphor in Dear President Obama Book. The Objectives of the study were to identify the types of ideational metaphor, find out the dominant type of process, and explain the reason for one of the types of process ideational metaphor as the dominant process. Descriptive qualitative method was applied in analyzing the data. Thus, in doing this research, library research was applied in analyzing the data. The data were collected from choosing the letters in Dear President Obama Book. There were 185 letters and 35 letters were taken to be analyzed. From the data obtained, there were seventy nine (79) items types of process. It was found that Material Process 29 (35.70%), Mental Process 16 (20.25%), Relational Process 24 (30.4%), Behavioural Process 3 (3.8%), Verbal Process 2 (2.53%), Existential Process 5 (6.32%). Material Process is most dominant type of process ideational metaphor that was 35.70%