A Cognitive Semantic Analysis of Conceptual Metaphor in Lang Leav’s Poetry

Abstract

This study is a literary work that has the intention to analyze the conceptual metaphor containing in Lang Leav’s poetry through cognitive semantic theory. Lang Leav’s poetry is one of the popular poetries which contents are interesting and relevant to the lives of this era. In this study, the author analyzes the conceptual metaphor in this poetry by applying the main theories of cognitive semantic developed by Evans & Green (2006), conceptual metaphor by Lakoff & Johnson (2008), and image schema analysis by Croft et al., (2004). The qualitative descriptive approach is applied in this study to analyze the data. The data are taken from the collection of poetry books that have been published by Lang Leav’s, which are memories, lullabies, universe of us, and love and misadventure. The result of this analysis reveals that, based on the conceptual metaphor, there are structural metaphors, orientational metaphors, and ontological metaphors occurring in the data. Furthermore, the kinds of image schema that appear are the identity, existence, container, and space schema.