Presented in The 14th CRISU_CUPT International Conference 2019: Higher Education in the Digital Era
A MULTIMODAL STUDY OF DEATH AS A JOURNEY METAPHOR IN BALINESE
I Made Rajeg (Udayana University, made_rajeg@unud.ac.id)
Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg (Udayana University, primahadi_wijaya@unud.ac.id) I Kadek Sanjaya (ikadeksanjaya28@gmail.com)
Abstract
The human experience of death is totally imperceptible. Accordingly, the death can not be completely and literally comprehended and metaphorical language is expected to clarify it. This paper aims to discover and clarify metaphorical expressions concerning death to represent the motivating conceptual metaphor THE DEATH IS A JOURNEY and the images that embody the concept.
The data source is a collection of self-built Balinese corpusof 640,462 words and a self-recorded video of a cremation ceremony. The corpus was built from the Balinese-language texts on the Bali Orti online using a mixed corpus approach. The types of texts involved in the corpus include news, literature, religion, myths, legends, and others. The linguistic data are obtained using an electronic text analyzer program, Antconc 3.2.4w with a keyword mati ‘death’ to produce a concordance. The video was recorded in 2005 during the cremation ceremony. The relevant linguistic expressions of death are collected by inspecting the usage citations of mati ‘death’ in the concordance and are analyzed using the Conceptual Metaphorical Theory. The image data are obtaned by the observing the video.,
The result of the analysis shows that the metaphorical expressions representing the conceptual metaphor THE DEATH IS A JOURNEY are embodied in the images representing the same concept.