RETHORICAL TRANSFERENCE (A TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL METAPHOR)

Rhetoric has been a very interesting phenomenon in the use of daily language, but then it is getting much more attractive linguistically with the employment of metaphor in an impressive way. Metaphorical expression, strictly speaking, has the capacity to decorate and beautify the content of speech in its own way. It brings about such an empowerment to the transfer of message and information. It, then, prominently bridges the smoother flow of rhetorical transference in a speech. With regard to the basic notion of systemic functional grammar, the term lexical metaphor has been part of ideational realization of metaphorical modes of expression. In such a reason, it is quite interesting to further investigate the nature of lexical metaphor from the perspective of systemic functional grammar. The basic instrumental device of the analysis is done through the transitivity analysis. This type of analysis has the potential to reveal the nature rhetorical transference within which the lexical metaphor adhered in a speech, the findings of the research show that there is one of the clause elements in the metaphor functioning as the nucleus of the metaphor. This phenomenon together with the other elements of the clause constitute the nature of the lexical metaphor.