A CORPUS STUDY OF LOVE METAPHORS IN BALINESE

In cognitive linguistics, metaphors are understood as part of the fundamental and systematic conceptual system of the human being that is reflected in the everyday-language and life behavior, including the emotion of LOVE. This research aims at examining the metaphors of LOVE in the Balinese language. The data source is a collection of self-built Balinese corpus. The relevant linguistic expressions of LOVE are collected by inspecting the usage citations of tresna ‘love’ in the corpus.