AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ON STUDENTS’ CONVERSATION IN CLASSROOM INTERACTION OF TENTH GRADE AT SMK NEGERI 1 PEMATANG SIANTAR


  • (1)  Indah Rumondang Manik            Department of English Education, Universitas HKBP Nommensen Pematangsiantar, Pematang Siantar, Indonesia  
            Antarctica

  • (2)  Herman Herman             Department of English Education, Universitas HKBP Nommensen Pematangsiantar, Pematang Siantar, Indonesia  
            Angola

  • (3)  Rudiarman Purba            Department of English Education, Universitas HKBP Nommensen Pematangsiantar, Pematang Siantar, Indonesia  
            American Samoa

    (*) Corresponding Author

Keywords:

Figurative Language, conversation, classroom interaction

Abstract

Figurative language is language that uses figures of speech (ways of saying one thing and meaning another). This research discusses the analysis of figurative language in conversation in the interaction of tenth grade students at SMK Negeri 1 Pematang Siantar. In this research, researcher used descriptive qualitative research methods. The way researcher to collected data is that researchers make observations at school and the instrument of the researcher to collected data is audio record.  In order for researchers to easily analyze the conversation, researchers must understand the meaning of the conversation. In this study, researcher found 2 types of figurative language, namely cynicism and hyperbole. From 5 conversation data, the researcher found 7 sentences of hyperbole type figurative language (21.8%) and 14 sentences of cynicism type (43.75%).  From these results, it was found that students more often use these 2 types of figurative language. The benefit of this research is that by studying figurative language, students can understand the figurative language they used when communicating daily and students become more aware of where and when to use figurative language so that misunderstandings do not occur, including in the learning process.

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Published

2023-10-23

How to Cite

Indah Rumondang Manik, Herman Herman, & Rudiarman Purba. (2023). AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ON STUDENTS’ CONVERSATION IN CLASSROOM INTERACTION OF TENTH GRADE AT SMK NEGERI 1 PEMATANG SIANTAR. Middle European Scientific Bulletin, 41, 86-93. Retrieved from https://cejsr.academicjournal.io/index.php/journal/article/view/1921