Text Analysis Preposition of Metaphor in Deli Tale

Abstract

Regional culture that is threatened with extinction in Indonesia must be addressed with research and workshops; training on cultural outcomes using regional languages is a kind of cultural revitalization. Hikayat Deli is the work of the local speaking community of Medan or Deli; socializing in the archipelago since spoken and mandated. The saga has both dulce and utile elements. There are two intellectual traditions in studying literature, namely the “logical empiric” intellectual tradition. The hermeneutical tradition is used by literary reviewers to find the essential meaning of a text such as the saga of Putri Hijau. This research method is a qualitative descriptive method with a literary perception approach, that is, the literature reviewer uncovers the meaning behind the reality of literary texts who pay attention to the representation of the text in accordance with the perspective of the sociology of literature study. The research results will be obtained by identifying language styles and then analyzing metaphors such as figurative language stylistics in the Putri Hijau saga text. Lecturers or literature teachers, cultural and literary researchers covered the understanding of the Medan community that needed to revitalize the Putri Hijau saga by identifying its metaphorical texts with a semantic approach.