Metaphor in Bahasa Batak Angkola Julu Proverb

The aim of this research was to find out 1) what category of the Space of Human Perception by Haley which is used to create a metaphor in BBAJ Proverb 2) how the metaphor realized in BBAJ Proverb 3) the reasons of metaphor realized in BBAJ Proverb in the way they are. The data sources of this research were 5 people. They are the descendants of native speakers who first lived in the village of Sabungan Julu. The research is a kind of qualitative descriptive. The data of the research focus on phrase, which contain of metaphor on BBAJ Proverb, the technique of collecting data that is used in the research is collecting or listing proverbs from Bahasa Batak Angkola Julu. From some process of communication the researcher has been listed any proverbs based on the context of interaction and communication. The results of this research 1) Of the nine categories, there are only being, energy, terrestrial, object, living, animate and human categories. Meanwhile, the cosmos and substance categories are not found in BBAJ Proverb. Based on the results of the distribution of the use of the Haley model's perception space category, the researcher found the living category which shows the most prominent type of metaphor category with a percentage distribution of 17.94%. There are 6 metaphorical expressions in BBAJ Proverb that are not included in the nine categories which the researcher then calls the word other. 2) the process (realization) of metaphor in Bahasa Batak Angkola Julu Proverb correlated with theory of Grammatical Metaphor (GM) that Grammatical metaphor can thus be seen to introduce a tention between grammar (a text’s wording) and semantics (a text’s meaning) so that language has to be read on at least two levels metaphorically, with one level directly reflecting the grammar, and beyond that another symbolically related level of semantics. 3) as the reason of the using metaphor, the BBAJ Proverb the entire environment relating to human life, both the physical and natural environment (macrocosmos) and the socio-cultural or socio-cultural environment (microcosmos).