Table 3.2.1 Mapping of CRISIS IS SICK CRISIS
SICK Crisis is a disease that can infects to
an economic situation in a nation Sick is lack physical strength that
can weaken the immune system of body
To reform economic crisis needs some regulation to control the
economic situation To cure a disease needs a suitable
treatment to heal the body
Unstable economic condition may leads to the economic crisis in a
nation Weak physical condition of human
body can easily infected by many disease
The mapping in table 3.2.1 above explained the relations between the source domain SICK and the target domain CRISIS. The mapping highlighted
the physical condition in source domain SICK which applied to target domain CRISIS.
3.3 NATION AS FAMILY
There are two data represent the concept NATION AS FAMILY. The conceptual metaphor NATION AS FAMILY is derived from the mapping
process based on the metaphorical expression found in data number 23 and 30.
f. Datum 6 no. 23:
“Our founding fathers faced with perils that we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter
expanded by the blood of generations. ”
Explanation:
In datum 6 the metaphorical expression fathers indicates that the nation reflected as family. „Father‟ is literally means the leader of a family, but
in here „father‟ is used to „nation‟, which nation has totally different concept
with „family‟. NATION and FAMILY are two things that have different conceptual domain; therefore there is a cross domain conceptual mapping
between these two. The target domain NATION is conceived in source domain FAMILY. NATION is constructed as family and conceptually can
experience the same function as FAMILY.
The meaning of a father is quite same as the literal father who is in this metaphorical word fathers, is considered as the leader in a nation, because
there is a same experience between a nation and a family. Therefore, based on the sentence context, founding fathers means the leaders who establish a
nation and responsible to protecting the nation by making such regulations to the people of America. The function of this metaphorical expression is to
inform the courage of founding fathers in fighting for this nation by drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of this nation.
