TEMPERATURE AS SOURCE DOMAIN OF METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS

A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis to Novel Answered Prayers By Sydney Sheldon

Abstract

This research is the study of metaphorical expressions of temperature terms
used as source domain. Researcher takes dialogs and narratives in the
novel Answered Prayers by Sydney Sheldon as data source. Qualitative
descriptive research is used by collecting metaphorical expression which
used temperature terms as source domain based on the conceptual
metaphor theory. Researcher finds that there are four target domains of
metaphorical expressions using temperature terms; they are affection,
emotional intensity, personality and physical appearance (related to a
fashionable appearance). From those four target domains, the highest
number is the conceptual metaphor of AFFECTION is TEMPERATURE
with 23 metaphorical expressions. It also appears in this research that
human’s experiential basis to temperature influence the terms used in
metaphorical expressions.