An Analysis of Conceptual Metaphor in “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” Movie By Allan Loeb

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the conceptual metaphors contained in the film script Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. The purpose of this study is to answer the formulation of the problem, namely (1) To find out the types of metaphorical found in the movie wall street: money never sleeps. (2) To know how the conceptual metaphors realized in the movie wall street: money never sleeps. This study uses descriptive qualitative research because it uses words as data taken from the film script. Lakoff's (2003) theory was used to fulfill the objectives of this research, namely structural metaphors, ontological metaphors, and orientation metaphors. The results showed that the three types of metaphors contained in the film script contained: 15 (30%) structural metaphors, 17 (34%) ontological metaphors, and 18 (36%) orientational metaphors. Therefore, it can be concluded that the most frequently used is the orientational metaphor.