From Happy Wedding to Divorce; Marriage Terms Metaphor in Indonesian Political Coalition

Adam, Muhammad; Hafsah, Siti

doi:10.34050/elsjish.v5i1.19855

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From Happy Wedding to Divorce; Marriage Terms Metaphor in Indonesian Political Coalition

ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities · Vol. 5 No. 1 (2022) · pp. 56–62

DOI: 10.34050/elsjish.v5i1.19855
ISSN: 2621-0835, 2621-0843
Published: 2022-03-11
Publisher: Hasanuddin University
Language: en
License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Abstract

: Indonesian political multi-parties system requires political parties to build a solid coalition in anticipating any election event, at all levels; national, regional, and local. The description of the way political parties build the relationship and how candidates seek support from a party is often described metaphorically as stages of marriage. There are few studies of metaphor in political discourse in the Indonesian context, but less attention is given to the detail of the use of the specific source domain MARRIAGE. This study aims to take a deeper look at how the marriage relationship context is used to describe the conceptual metaphor of political coalition establishment. The aim of this study is to identify the mapping principle from the Source domain of MARRIAGE to the target domain POLITICAL COALITION to pinpoint the particular properties that enable characteristics in MARRIAGE to be used as the metaphorical expressions. Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) of Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and Deliberate Metaphor Theory of Steen, (2011) are used as the theoretical framework, with six news headlines about the political coalition from Indonesian online media news is purposively chosen as the data source.

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University of Indonesia
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La Ode Amrul Hasan	Affiliation unknown	1
Dwi Rinnarsuri	Affiliation unknown	1
Indahwati Indahwati	Affiliation unknown	1
Hari Wijayanto	Affiliation unknown	1
Suwarno Suwarno	Institut Teknologi Medan	1
Catra Indra Cahyadi	Affiliation unknown	1
Elly Nurachmah	University of Indonesia	1
Mutarobin Mutarobin	Affiliation unknown	1
Rita Sekarsari	Affiliation unknown	1
Erwin Erwin	Affiliation unknown	1

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