Review of Previous Studies
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The mostly figurative language appears in his research are personification and metaphor.
The last research is conducted by Perez 2012. He analyzes the figurative language in social media text. The aim of his research is to show how a particular
domain of figurative language: humor and irony can be handled automatically by considering the linguistic rules. The main objective of the research is to identify
figurative language, especially irony and humor found in social media. The data analyzed is the text of social media web comments, tweets, and user reviews by
selecting the characteristics of the text that has a funny aspect. An example of the data being analyzed is the irony:
“Sitting in the eye doctor’s office, wait for the doctor to see me” The researcher analyzes the data by using figurative language theory and he
combines with the theory of syntactic structure and semantics conceptualization. The result is the language reflects the patterns of thought and figurative language are
assumed to communicate something indirectly. It is also found in the text where the social media which often contain irony and humor.
The three researchers above describe the differences of discussion with the researcher’s research study. In the first research, it discusses the use of figurative
language contains in press advertising, while the second research discusses the figurative language in the creation of musical meaning and the third research has
explained how the use of figurative language in the text of social media. The
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similarities between the discussions is conducted by the researcher with the previous three researchers are equally discuss about figurative language, but the differences are
the data of research. Another difference is the application of the theories. The first researcher applies the theory of figurative language, stylistics features, syntactic
features, and semantic while the second researcher uses cognitive linguistic theory. Furthermore, the third researcher combines the theory of figurative language with
syntactic structure, and semantic conceptualization. In this study, the researcher discusses several types of figurative language and
how the relation of figurative language to the characterization of main characters in Wildes short stories by applying the theory of figurative language which is described
by Rozakis 1995 and the theory of character and characterization by Abrams 1999. Meanwhile, it needed the method of stylistics by Simpson 2004 to connect
between linguistic features in literary work.