Rekonstruksi Makna Metaforis dalam Adaptasi Lirik Lagu Jawa ke dalam Bahasa Jepang: Analisis Wacana Kritis Norman Fairclough

Abstract

This study analyzes metaphorical meanings in the Japanese versions of Mundur Alon-Alon, Tatu, and Rungkad and reveals their reconstruction through Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). This research employed a qualitative descriptive approach using the Japanese song lyrics as the data source. Data were collected through observation and note-taking techniques and analyzed using Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Fairclough's (1995) three-dimensional CDA model, and song-translation principles discussed by Low (2005, 2017) and Susam-Saraeva (2015), consisting of text, discursive practice, and sociocultural practice. The findings indicate that the metaphors in the three songs undergo semantic reconstruction as a consequence of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic adaptation. In Mundur Alon-Alon, the dominant metaphors include the heart is a container for emotions, love is a substance, and a person is a shelter, representing the loss of emotional space in a relationship. In Tatu, the dominant metaphor is emotional pain is a physical wound, conceptualizing emotional suffering as physical injury. Meanwhile, Rungkad is dominated by the metaphor emotional failure is physical destruction, portraying emotional collapse as physical destruction. Fairclough's CDA reveals that, at the textual level, metaphors are realized through symbolic lexical choices; at the discursive practice level, metaphors are reconstructed through translyrics to preserve their emotional impact in Japanese; and at the sociocultural practice level, metaphors reflect the negotiation of cultural values between Javanese and Japanese societies. This study concludes that translating song lyrics involves not only linguistic transfer but also cultural transformation, which reconstructs ideology, identity, and emotional experience in intercultural communication.