LEXICAL METAPHOR IN HAMKA’S TENGGELAMNYA KAPAL VAN DER WIJCK

This study deals with lexical metaphor in HAMKA’s Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck. It was aimed at investigating the kinds of lexical metaphor used in the novel, to describe the lexical metaphor used in the novel, and to elaborate the reasons why those kinds of lexical metaphor used in the novel in that way. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative research. The sources of data were the novel of Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck, published by Bulan Bintang, 213 pages, 26th edition, which containing of 28 texts printed in 2002, in Jakarta. The data obtained through purposive sampling technique with a focused on utterances containing of lexical metaphor. The instrument in this study was the researcher itself. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis technique, by describing the kinds of lexical metaphor, the realization of lexical metaphor, and the reason of using lexical metaphor contained in the utterances in the novel were analyzed using the Systemic Functional Language approach.The result showed that there are six concepts of lexical metaphor, namely nominal-verbal, nominal-nominal, nominal-adjective, nominal-verbal/adjective-circumstance, verbal-adjective, verbal-verbal. The dominant type of lexical metaphor in the novel is nominal-verbal the aimed to beautify or describe his literature and to describe his feeling and thought. The reason of lexical metaphor used in the novel is to describe about the culture of Minangkabau at that time which was not relevant to the social freedom and human rights in marriage, in addition to show the emotion such as sense of love, hate, anger, pleasure, and so forth of the characters in the novel who live in an environment that has a powerful custom, and to describe that this novel is a fictitious story that comes from the imagination of author associated with social and cultural life of Minangkabau society in the past time. In this study, there are new findings; the new concept of verbal-adjective and verbal-verbal.