158 THE USING OF METAPHOR IN CRIMINAL COLUMN IN THE JAKARTA POST NEWSPAPER By: Hiace Vega Fernando Siahaan, S.S., M.Hum Lecturer of English Literature Department Faculty of Letters Darma Agung University Email: hiace_12@yahoo.com ABSTRAK Artikel ini mengkaji masalah metafor yang ada dalam The Jakarta Post. Tujuan dari kajian ini untuk menggambarkan penggunaan metafor dalam surat kabar, mendapatkan jenis metafor yang paling dominan dalam surat kabar dan menjelaskan alasan kemunculan metafor. Data dalam kajian ini diambil dari kolom kriminalitas The Jakarta Post. Kajian menggunakan rancangan penelitian descriptive qualitative design. Hasil analisis menemukan bahwa semua jenis metafor muncul dalam kolom kriminalitas The Jakarta Post, walaupun kemunculan masing masing berbeda dalam jumlah. Adapun kemunculan dari jenis – jenis metafor adalah sebagai berikut:conceptual metaphorsebanyak 12 data (48%), ontological metaphorsebanyak 8 data (32%) danorientational metaphorsebanyak 5 data (20%). Jenisconceptual metaphoradalah jenis metafor yang paling dominan muncul dalamThe Jakarta Post. Alasan kemunculan conceptual metaphor yang paling dominan muncul adalah karena jenis metafor ini yang paling tepat dalam menyampaikan informasi tentang pelaku, tempat, dan waktu dalam kejadian kriminalitas. Keywords: Metaphor, Text, Context, Criminal Text. The Background of the Study Metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought of Lakoff and Jhonson (1980:125) state that there are three kinds of metaphor, they are Conceptual Metaphor, Ontological Metaphor, and Orientational Metaphor. These three kinds of metaphor can be available in every printed material including in the newspaper. A newspaper is a periodical publication containing news, other informative articles and usually advertising. The newspaper has a function as a world window for many people. There are various columns, criminal column, and politic column. Of course, criminal text in a newspaper is part of the metaphor. In the newspaper, it described that metaphor is a way of information something in a different way. This text usually found in the criminal context becausecriminal language using figures text in metaphor.The criminal column is a text of a newspaper describing what happens in many times. According to Kartono (2003: 135), the criminal column depends on formal juridical, crime is from behavior that conflict with immoral, society attitude, collide with law and punishment law. In sociologists, rime is all pronouncing and economist behavior, politic, and social psychology make society be damage, collide morality norm and attack the safety of society. Criminal journalism is explaining about crime, open the cause of the crime,