Figure of Speech in Bandung Historical Tourism Sites Naming

Eva Sujatna, Kasno Pamungkas and Heriyanto Darsono

Asian Social Science, 2017, vol. 13, issue 5, 153

Abstract: Many researchers do their research on figurative language or figure of speech, but it is limited research on figure of speech in historical tourism sites naming. The aim of this research is to investigate the figure of speech in historical tourism sites naming in Bandung area. The earlier study explained that the names of tourism destinations in Jawa Barat have different figure of speech and it happens to Bandung historical tourism sites naming. The method used by the present writers in this research is descriptive method. The descriptive method chosen by the present writers is used to identify and classify the names of the historical tourism sites in Bandung area as the data. From the various types of figure of speech referring to the theory, it is found that they are two types of figure of speech found in the data. The two figures of speech employed are personification (Gedung Merdeka and Gedung Indonesia Menggugat) and metaphor (Goa Belanda, Goa Jepang, Paris van Java, and Kota Kembang).

Date: 2017
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