THE METAPHORS IN OBAMA’S INAUGURAL SPEECH

Key words: Metaphor, Hermeneutic, Obama’s Inaugural Speech. This study uses theory of metaphor and hermeneutic. This theory is used to find out the meaning of interpretating metaphors in Obama’s inaugural speech. This research wants: the kinds of metaphors are used in Obama’s inaugural speech and the intended meaning of each of the metaphors in Obama’s inaugural speech. Descriptive qualitative is used in this study because this research is planned for qualitative research. This study intends to describe the phenomena of metaphors in Obama’s inaugural speech. This study has three research approach: source of data, data collections technique, and data analysis. Of the 36 metaphors in obama inaugural speech, can be classified into: descriptive, embedded, abstract, absolute, complex, dormant, implicit, simple, and root metaphors.From 36 metaphors in Obama’s inaugural speech, only 19 was interpreted, because For avoiding misunderstanding of the interpretation based on cultural experiences, because of different experiences from different cultures, so that accurate cross-cultural communication difficult to realize, and misunderstandings are common.