A PRAGMATICS ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE USED IN REVELATION BIBLE IN NEW TESTEMENT

• Main Author: SAPUTRI, WENY EKA
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13569/
• Summary: This research deals with Figurative Language used in Revelation Bible in New Testament. The research is aimed at describing type of Figurative Language and the implicature of figurative language used in Revelation Bible in New Testament. In achieving the objectives, the researcher uses descriptive qualitative as the type of the research. The data source of this research is Revelation Bible. In collecting the data the writer uses documentation method and the steps are Reading the Revelation Bible, underlying the Figurative Language found in Revelation Bible, retyping and coding the data. The techniques of analyzing data of this research are describing the type of figurative language and analyzing the implicature based on the context of pragmatics. The result of the study shows that first, the type of figurative languages in revelation bible are: The figurative Languages of Simile (38.9%), Metaphors (8.3%), Personifications (8.3%), Apostrophe (2.8%), Paradox (2.8%), Synecdoche (8.3%), Hyperbole (13.9%) and Symbol (16.7%). Second, the implicature of figurative language used in revelation bible are: Commanding (13.9%), Promising (5.5%), Reminding (52.8%), Threatening (22.2%), Teasing (2.8%) and Suggesting (2.8%). In addition, all of the data belongs to conversational implicature and none of them are in the type of conventional implicature.