Grammatical Metaphor Representation and Transgrammatical Semantic Domains in the Narrative Text Entitled “True Friends”

Abstract

Metafunction is very useful to explain grammatical metaphor.Metaphor is not only an escape expression of vocabulary, butalso an escape means of expression for grammatical forms.Grammatical metaphor provides a new angle of view: vocabularies possess metaphorical function; grammatical formspossess metaphorical characteristic. On how to raise theoreticallevel for practical application, English learners and translatorsshould adopt a more positive attitude. Grammatical metaphor commonly used in texts of science, technology and academics,The researcherchoose a narrative text titled„True Friends‟ which is a short interesting story that has a good lesson, that makes easy to understand about the topic of this research that is knowledge or competence of Grammatical Metaphor and Transgrammatical Semantic in Text which is written in English.Thisway, people will be more interesting to read the text because they canunderstand and translate the text into Bahasa Indonesia easier. In this case, the reader can translate this narrative text entitled „True Friends‟ into Bahasa Indonesia interestingly and easier.