AN ANALYSIS OF METAPHOR FOR CORONA ON HEADLINES NEWS

This paper examines, describes, and analyzes the types of metaphor used in Tribunnews.com headlines particularly Corona issues. The data were taken from March 2 nd 2020 until July 14 th 2020 with keywords Corona and Covid-19 and, were analyzed in the frame of qualitative method. The data taken were analyzed by using conceptual metaphor proposed by Lakof and Johnson. The analysis deals with the types of metaphor called structural metaphor, ontological metaphor, and orientational metaphor. The result shows how Corona was mapped into other domain in order to simplify and attract reader’s attention.

an important rule to attract people's attention since the content of the article is not directly shown on the page. Thus, the headlines should be created as interesting as possible. That is why the journalists must be creative in wording. One of the methods they can use is by using a figurative language.
Tribunnews.com as an online news platform provides various information about problematic situation through article every time, such as health, economic issues, political issues, education, lifestyles, and sport. In the health article, Corona virus, also known as Covid-19, often appears in Tribunnews.com since this pandemic has been a hot issue in the world. Many news platform try to provide the latest news about Corona in order to grab reader's attention. The headlines they use are attractive. It is believed that eye-catching headlines are able to provoke readers' curiosity and persuade them to read the whole article. In this point of view, newspaper headlines have the same function as headlines or slogans in advertisements, trying to attract and encourage the consumer to buy the product (Silaški, 2009).
Generally, headlines Corona in Tribunnews.com contains metaphor. The example of metaphor for Corona issues used in Tribunnews.com could be seen in the articles taken from March 2 nd 2020 until July 14 th 2020. This research tried to examine how metaphor was used in the headline news in Tribunnews.com, particularly for Corona issues. By understanding metaphor used in the headlines hopefully readers could realize how metaphor is often used in headlines even sometimes lack informative as it is used to provoke readers' curiosity.
Based on the explanation above, then the researcher tried to carry out the research entitled An Analysis of Metaphor for Corona on Headlines News. The researcher analyzed metaphorical expressions about Corona in Tribunnews.com headlines by using the theory of conceptual mapping of metaphor proposed by George Lakoff and Johnson (1980).

METHOD
This research is in the frame of qualitative research since this research tried to explore a social or human problem (Creswell, 2003). The source of the data for this research was downloaded from Tribunnews.com with release dates from March 2 nd 2020 until July 14 th 2020. This research only analyzed metaphor for Corona Virus issues. In data collection, the researcher used keyword Corona and Covid-19 to search Corona articles. The data obtained were categorized and classified based on the types of metaphor and then analyzed, discussed, and reported in the frame of conceptual metaphor theory proposed by Lakoff and Johnson.

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
According to Lakoff and Johnson (1980), there are three types of conceptual metaphor: ontological metaphor, structural metaphor, and orientational metaphor. These metaphors appeared on Tribunnews.com.

Structural metaphor
Structural metaphor is a conventional metaphor in which one concept is understood and expressed in terms of another structured (Lakoff and Johnson 1980). In a structural metaphor, an abstract concept usually is presented to concrete concept.
There are thirteen structural metaphor expressions found in the following articles.

Orientational metaphor
Orientational metaphor is kind of metaphor that organizes a whole system of concepts with respect to one another (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). There are four orientational metaphors found in the data collected.  annoying, and awful. It will be more efficient than explaining that Corona is a kind of virus that could attack human's respiratory system and is absolutely deadly. Other war terms used in the data could be found such as make peace (berdamai) and side by side (berdampingan). Peace is a term in war that means freedom from disturbance; tranquility or a state or period in which there is no war or a war has ended. In this case, by using this metaphor the government needs people to conceptualize that even though Corona has not ended, they must live with this virus. The term peace could activate the way people think and understand the situation easier. Since the pandemic still has not over yet, still, people should be able to adapt with it. (banjir) also appeared in the headlines. These ontological metaphors are a metaphor in which an abstract concept (activity, emotion or idea) is represented as a concrete concept.

Conclusion
This paper shows the use of metaphor for Corona issues as a way of expression in newspaper headlines. Furthermore, it shows how metaphor's expressiveness and figurativeness of the headlines could improve. Metaphors in headlines are generally innovative and unconventional. However, conceptual metaphors are categorized to structural metaphors, orientational metaphors and ontological metaphors. In structural metaphors, Corona is conceptualized as a war; then in orientational metaphors, there is a vertical concept such as up and down, and in ontological metaphors, it is found that Corona is also mapped as a container and other concepts.

Suggestions
This research focuses on identifying and analyzing the metaphors used in Tribunnews.com headlines news particularly article about Corona Issues. The next researcher who are interested in the same field can spread over the theory of analysis not only about metaphor but also the critical discourse analysis within the text. By analyzing the CDA of the text, a new researcher could offer a complete view of the text itself.