IMPACTS OF INTERPERSONAL METAPHOR ON GRAMMATICAL INTRICACY AND LEXICAL DENSITY IN THE TEXT OF PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN BARRACK OBAMA AND MITT ROMNEY

Abstract: The  objectives  of  the  study  are  (1)  to  identify  types  of interpersonal  metaphor  used  in  the  text  of  presidential  debate between  Barrack  Obama  and  Mitt  Romney,  (2)  to  describe  the impacts  of  interpersonal  metaphor  grammatical  intricacy  (GI) and  lexical  density  (LD)  in  the  text  of  presidential  debate between  Barrack  Obama  and  Mitt  Romney  with  reference  to congruent  coding,  (3)  to  explain  the  ways  interpersonal metaphor have impacts on GI and LD in the text of presidential debate between Barrack Obama and Mitt Romney. The findings reveal  that  both  types  of  interpersonal  metaphor  namely metaphor of modality and metaphor of mood are found. In terms of metaphor of modality, the three values namely high, medium and  low  are  identified  as  the  following  proportions:  18 utterances  (25.71%)  with  high  value,  28  utterances  (40%)  with medium  value  and  8  utterances  (11.42%)  with  low  value. Meanwhile  the  rest  is  metaphor  of  mood  which  is  realized  in questions as many as 14 utterances (20%) and command which occur twice (2.85%). All of metaphor of modality and metaphor mood  have  the  higher  ratio  of  GI  compared  to  the  congruent forms.  As  for  LD,  the  result  was  various;  this  is  to  say  that  to one  side,  the  presence  of  interpersonal  metaphor  in  some utterances  cause  the  utterances  to  have  higher  ratio  of  LD  than that of the congruent codings. On the other side, the ratio of LD in some of the congruent codings are higher than that of some of the interpersonal metaphor utterances. 
Keywords:  Interpersonal  Metaphor,  Grammatical  Intricacy,  Lexical Density
Author: Deddy Kristian Aritonang
Journal Code: jppendidikangg140137

Artikel Terkait :

Jp Pendidikan gg 2014