METAPHOR IN BARACK OBAMA’S SPEECHES
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This research deals with Metaphorical Patterns in Barack Obama’s speeches. This
research uses a qualitative approach. The objective of the study were to find the
metaphorical patterns in Barack Obama’s speeches. The data were collected from
the speech of Barack Obama. The study revealed that there are five metaphorical
patterns are used in Barack Obama’s speeches: general reifying, animizing and
personifying metaphors, materializing abstract process, process, object or
substance. The speech was the representative of his sayings to white people. The
responses of white people were analyzed by theory and the responses are: white
people receive and felt happy because everything that he said about unity is good
in the speech.
research uses a qualitative approach. The objective of the study were to find the
metaphorical patterns in Barack Obama’s speeches. The data were collected from
the speech of Barack Obama. The study revealed that there are five metaphorical
patterns are used in Barack Obama’s speeches: general reifying, animizing and
personifying metaphors, materializing abstract process, process, object or
substance. The speech was the representative of his sayings to white people. The
responses of white people were analyzed by theory and the responses are: white
people receive and felt happy because everything that he said about unity is good
in the speech.
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