Conceptual Metaphor of Anger and Sadness Emotion in Grunge Musicians song lyrics: A Cognitive Semantics Study

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The thesis is entitled “Conceptual Metaphor of Anger and Sadness Emotion in Grunge Musician’s song lyrics: A Cognitive Semantics Study”. The objective of this study is analyze and describe conceptual metaphors of anger and sadness emotion that Grunge Musicians used in their song lyrics and to analyze and describe the image schema formed in conceptual metaphor of anger and sadness emotion.. The data are taken from the lyrics of grunge musicians based on Rolling stones magazine about the best grunge musicians all the time The research uses qualitative method since the data collected are in the form of words rather than numbers and it is conducted based on the conceptual metaphor theory and emotion concept theory from cognitive semantics study. The result of this research shows that the conceptual metaphor of anger emotion mostly used by grunge musicians are ANGER IS FIRE, ANGER IS AN OPPENENT IN A STRUGGLE, ANGER IS A NATURAL FORCE, and ANGER IS A HOT FLUID IN CONTAINER, meanwhile the conceptual metaphor of sadness emotion mostly used by grunge musicians is SAD IS DOWN. The image schema mostly found in conceptual metaphor of anger emotion is FORCE SCHEMA, meanwhile image schema mostly found in conceptual metaphor of sadness emotion are SPACE SCHEMA and LOCOMOTION SCHEMA. Lastly, the grunge musicians mostly used conceptual metaphor of anger and sadness emotion in their song lyrics is Pearl Jam band.

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Conceptual metaphor, emotion concepts, image schemas

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