e. Datum 5 no. 33:
“An economic recovery has begun.”
Explanation:
In datum 5 the metaphorical expression recovery shows that the „crisis‟ is reflected as „sick‟. Literally, recovery is used to describe a return
process to a normal state of health from sick condition, but here the metaphorical „recovery‟ is used to „crisis‟ which crisis is obviously not related
to human body that needs to be recovered, but the process of recovery can be understood conceptually in economic process. CRISIS and SICK are two
things with different conceptual domain. Therefore, there is a cross domain conceptual mapping between these two. The target domain CRISIS is
conceived in source domain SICK. CRISIS is constructed as a SICK and conceptually can experience the same condition as SICK.
The metaphorical expression recovery here is usually used to describe a healing treatment of human body after illness which refers to crisis
condition. The meaning of recovery is to enhance economy condition. It can be seen from the previous sentence saying that the invasion to Iraq has been
stopped because this invasion cost a lot that resulted unstable economic condition. Therefore, Obama tried to start economic recovery to resolve the
economic complications as a consequence of the invasion. The function of this metaphorical expression is to inform citizens that the invasion has ended and
this is the time to fix the unstable economic condition that caused many problems in America.
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.
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