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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter consists of two parts. The first part is the discussion of the meanings of the metaphors with drive, fly, and sink. The second part is the discussion of the concrete example uses of drive, fly, and sink containing metaphorical meanings in British National Corpus and Corpus of Contemporary American English.

A. The Meanings of the Metaphors withDrive, Fly, and Sink

This section was conducted to answer first research objective which isthe meanings of the metaphors withdrive, fly, and sink by applying two phases. The first phase was collecting the expressions which have metaphorical meanings. The researcher sorted and determined whether the expression had metaphorical meaning or not. In this phase, the theory of Stern 2000 would be the bases.According to Stern 2000, there were four steps needed in order to discriminate between the words used metaphorically and literally. The steps were to read the entire text-discourse to establish a general understanding of the meaning, to determine the lexical units in the text-discourse, to establish the meaning of each lexical unit in the text in context, and to mark the expressions as metaphorical or not. The second phase was conducted after the researcher obtained the valid data of the expressions containing metaphorical meanings. The researcher classified the collected expressions based on each metaphorical meaning. In this 34 phase, the researcher interpreted the metaphorical meaning into literal meaning by consulting Oxford Advanced Learner‟s Dictionary and Cambridge Advanced learner‟s Dictionary.The results of those phases would be the first finding in this research.The following tables summarized the findings of the research. Table 4.1 The Percentage of the Metaphorical Meaning of the Verb Drive No. Meaning of Verb Drive BNC COCA Total Percentage 1. To influence something or cause it to make progress - 20 20 46.5 2. To force someone or something to go somewhere or do something 4 4 8 18.6 3. To force somebody or something to move in a particular direction 6 - 6 14 4. To make someone extremely annoyed 3 1 4 9.3 5. To force someone or something into a particular state 1 2 3 7 6. To make somebody very angry, crazy, etc. or to make them do something extreme - 1 1 2.3 7. To make somebody very excited, especially sexually 1 - 1 2.3 8. To force somebody to act in a particular way - - - 9. To force something to go in a particular direction or into particular position by pushing or hitting it - - - 10. To make an opening in or through something by using force - - - 11. To carry something along - - - 12. To fall or move rapidly and with great force - - - GRAND TOTAL 43 100 Table 4.1 presented the meanings of the metaphors with drive occurred in British National Corpus and Corpus of Contemporary American English, also the frequency of the metaphorical meanings found in the occurrence. The researcher