Pemikiran Metaforikal Di Dalam Esei Pelajar Mengikut Analisis Hermeneutik
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1998-05
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Thaliah, Rajaletchumi
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Metaphorical thinking and metaphors are now becoming a popular topic in
the discipline of cognitive science. Metaphors and related topics are discussed in the
field of linguistics, psychology, computer science and education. In this paper, what
is a metaphor and metaphorical thinking are explained in relation to past research in
this area. However Hermeneutics approach is used in this research to get a better
understanding of the essays. Types of essay which contains metaphor, types of
metaphor, the intention of the writer accordingly regarding certain issues, ideas and
so forth are investigated.
The central problem of Hermeneutics is that of interpretation. The
interpretation of metaphor pave the way to understand the writer's intention and
opinion regarding certain issues. The understanding of metaphor can serve as a
guide to the understanding of students essays .. Understanding of the text also
provides the key to understand metaphor. Elements such as motivation, emotion,
experience and culture helps a person to build metaphors and perceives its meaning.
Metaphoric competency shows various characteristics of a person such as
level of thinking and this information will be useful for teachers to understand their students better. Through Hermeneutic analysis, ontological metaphors contributes
multi-language functioning of human understanding.
From this research, it is found that the understanding of the work as a whole
gives the key to understand metaphor or in another word, metaphor is the microtext
and the text as macrometaphor. Metaphors that is brought in the classroom will help
the students educationally. This is because metaphors can instill values that will be
supportive of notions of lifelong learning. Understanding and controlling their own
learning process will give students power over their fates immediate and long term.
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