Lexical Metaphor In Printed Car Advertisements

This study deals with the use of Lexical Metaphor in Printed Car Advertisements. The objective of the
study was to describe the types of lexical Metaphor used in Printed Car Advertisements. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative research. The data in this study is the words that contained of lexical metaphors. The source of data were taken from slogan of magazines and brochure which containing 28 texts printed. The data were analyze using content analysis technique by describing the kinds of lexical metaphors,the realization of lexical metaphor and the reason were analyzed
by using systematic functional linguistic approach. The
instrument in this study was the researcher itself. ThSe result showed that there are eight concepts of lexical metaphor, namely nominal-verbal, nominal-nominal, nominal adjective, nominalverbal/adjective circumstance. The findings showed thatadvertisers construct different slogan for persuading theconsumers or to positively dispose toward their brand. As a form of marketing strategy, advertising ideology work and it played an
important role to beautify or describe his literature, feeling and thought. Potentially to make specific product or brand name more appealing and memorable. The reason were attention getting, persuasion, innovation and creativity, prestige,technological words, to fun and memo ability cause the owner thought that tag line/branding cannot translate directly in English the message cannot deliver well consumers because English has own term in the market/business.