Abstract
Like other societies, women are important figures in Javanese society so that women's figures in Javanese society's thoughts are also described in such a way. There is a desire in the collective imagination of the Javanese community towards women, so that the Javanese people's thoughts about women are very diverse. One of them is the Javanese thought about the physical beauty of women which is idealized through the use of metaphors. This metaphor in Javanese society is an expression of Javanese society to express ideas and dreams through language. This paper aims to find out the metaphorical conceptualization of the physical beauty of women in Javanese. This study uses qualitative methods and conceptual metaphor theory according to Lakoff and Johnson (1980). The results of data analysis show that there is a relationship between the Javanese people and their natural environment in the form of physical and cultural. Physical environment in the form of animals, plants, and other objects around it
Highlights
The presence of metaphorical expressions in everyday life has become so widespread, even those expressions are sometimes not realized as part of the form of human communication in describing parts of life that are abstract
This paper aims to find out the metaphorical conceptualization of the physical beauty of women in Javanese
Javanese speakers use the realm of sources that come from nature and the objects around them to express their thoughts on the physical beauty of the idealized Javanese woman
Summary
The presence of metaphorical expressions in everyday life has become so widespread, even those expressions are sometimes not realized as part of the form of human communication in describing parts of life that are abstract. This paper attempts to investigate the realm of the source as a form of metaphor in other words as a tool for conceptualizing thoughts about the characteristics of the physical beauty of women in Javanese society with the aim of obtaining aspects of the speaker's culture related to it. This is what distinguishes the research in this article from other similar studies. The definition of Lakoff and Johnson's metaphor as described above is used as the main theory in this study
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