LINGUISTIC AND CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF BODY PART PERSONIFICATIONS
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Key words. Personification, metaphor, conceptual structure, conventionality, deliberateness, fiction, metonymyAbstrak
Abstract. Personification is a figure of speech in which non-living objects are given the characteristics, abilities, and nature of human beings. It involves describing innate objects and ideas having the ability to execute responsibilities that are only executable by human beings. Personification is a vital literary tool that is usually used as a technique in literary work. It also makes stories more interesting and appealing Taking examples from novels in a British National Corpus, this article aims to present a systematic investigation of the conceptual structures and communicative functions of body part personifications in discourse.
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