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THE CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS OF PARTS OF HUMAN BODY: A COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC APPROACH

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This thesis, entitled 'The Conceptual Metaphor of Parts of Human Body: A
Coognitive Semantic Approach", aimed to investigate the conceptual metaphor of parts of
human body and the image schemas which appear to construct the conceptual metaphors in
the parts of human body. The data were taken from Corpus of Contemporary American
English (COCA) and were selected to meet the criteria of the three kinds of conceptual
metaphors (structural, ontological and orientational metaphors). In analyzing the data, the
qualitative descriptive study was applied and the data were analyzed by using the framework
of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1998). There
were found five parts of human body comprising those three kinds of metaphors; they are
head, eye, face, mouth and hand. The most type of conceptual metaphor used is ontological in
which the parts of human body are regarded as a container with various containment in. To
construct the conceptual metaphors, there are three image schemas found; container, path and
force image schemas. The most image schemas used are containment schemas which show
IN-OUT, FULL-EMPTY, and SURFACE schemas. The image-schemas have indeed been
shown to lie at the basis of numerous metaphorical construction and been helpful to draw the
the interpretation of source to target domain.

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420 Asn c/R.18.195.1

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Bandung : Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Unpad., 2017

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xii, 124 hlm. ; il. ; 29 cm.

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English

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420 Asn c

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