Animal Metaphors in Kendrick Lamar's Song Lyrics: An Ecolinguistics Study

Aprilia Kartika Putri, Siti Fitriah, Ulil Amri, Yoga Mestika Putra

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Metaphors are used in various media. This article describes animal metaphors found in Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics. This research was conducted based on ecolinguistics perspective. Researcher collected the data by implementing document review technique. Data analysis was carried out by using target and source analysis by Lakoff and Johnson (1980). Halley’s theory (1980) was applied to identify animal metaphors in the lyrics. On the other hand, Haugen’s theory (1972) was used to recognize the environment of the animal metaphors. The research shows that there were 9 (nine) animas used as metaphors (bird, jellyfish, shark, mouse, dog, lion, monkey, camel, and pig). The animal metaphors were found in 5 (five) different environments (social phenomenon, ethnicity, human anatomy, transportation, and politics).
Keywords: metaphor, animal metaphors, Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics, ecolinguistics

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