Abstract
This research paper looks into the main ideologies conveyed by linguistics features, mainly metaphors, in the two Nicholas Sparks’ novels The Notebook and A Walk to Remember. Corpus techniques were adopted to get an overview of the data. The qualitative method was applied with Fairclough’s (2015) three-dimensional framework to analyze the data. A software called Antconc was integrated into this study to achieve the most accurate statistics. The results showed a list of twenty most frequently used keywords, in which “time” is the noun with the highest frequency. Using Fairclough’s three-dimensional model, 40 metaphors with the word “time” based on Lakoff’s (2003) theory were analysed thoroughly. Three main ideologies embedded in those metaphors were then detected. It was found that in Nicholas Sparks’ point of view, time is a valuable commodity, time is an immense invisible power, and time is a non-renewable resource.
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