Kinds of Metaphor in Hasan Tiro Speech

Metaphor is used in speech toward the message delivery. It is able to grab many sentences into a word, an expression, a proverb, etc. There are four kinds of metaphor proposed by Kovecses,they are conventional metaphor, cognitive function metaphor (consist of structural metaphor, ontological metaphor and oriental metaphor), nature of metaphor, levels of generality of metaphor. The objectives of this study were to investigate kinds of metaphor in Hasan Tiro speech. Qualitative research was applied. The data were written texts (document) of his speech entitled Sumatera Siapa Punya I (who belong Sumatera I) and Sumatera Siapa Punya II (who belong Sumatera II). They were analyzed by using Miles and Huberman analysis. The analysis consists of data selection, data display, and verifying/conclusion. The result of the study displayed that there were two kinds of metaphors, they were conventional metaphor and ontological metaphor. The dominant was conventional metaphor. It occured because it related to daily usage and indexicality.