Contrastive Metaphorical Discourse Analysis of the Malay and Arabic Language Ffrom Aa Social Practice Perspective

The study of metaphorical discourse in Arabic rhetoric has gone through a long period of time that witnessed enormous books and meticulous studies carried out by a large number of Arab and non-Arab scholars. Nevertheless, these rigorous studies that had enriched the study of Arabic rhetoric only served the study of Islam for Arab and non-Arab muslims. Less has been done on the study of Malay metaphorical discourse and the comparison between both. This paper mainly attempts to discuss a contrastive study of metaphorical discourse in Arabic and Malay rhetoric from the classification and social practices aspects that are implicitly found in the metaphorical discourses in both languages. The perspective of social practice, which is one of the components of Critical Discourse Analysis is aplied in this study. The finding of this study dictates the importance of knowing and understanding the classification of metaphorical discourses in Arabic as well as in Malay rhetoric. It further affirms that efforts are needed to unveil the contrastive metaphorical discourse between Arabic and Malay language, especially in terms of intra-social practices that are obviously embedded in metaphorical discourses in both languages. This in turn, will enhance the pursuit of knowledge among Malay students to undertand metaphorical discourse effectively.