Metaphorical Expressions Related to God Found in COCA : A Semantic Analysis (an article from an Undergraduate Thesis)
a preview of Corpus of Contemporary America English (COCA) https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS RELATED TO GOD FOUND IN COCA : A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS I Kadek Sanjaya sanjayaikadek@ymail.com I Made Rajeg imaderajeg@gmail.com Ni Ketut Sri Rahayuni ketutsrirahayuni@gmail.com Faculty of Arts, Udayana University, Denpasar - Bali ABSTRACT The past thirty six years has been seen as increasingly rapid advances in the field of metaphor. It was experienced firstly by Lakoff and Johnsen (1980), that metaphor is a property not merely in language but as well in thought and actions effortlessly in everyday life. It enlightens the way to build an idea in order to conduct a study on metaphor aimed at finding out the concepts underlying the metaphorical expressions in the corpus by the given title Metaphorical Expressions Related to God Found in COCA : A Semantic Analysis . The data source was taken from CO