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โครงการรวบรวมและจัดทําเอกสารวารสารอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์

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parts of the scripts that include the employment of figures of speech that
express fantasy senses (total of 150 figurative expressions) were purposively
selected as the units of words for the analysis. Next, the types and
occurrences of figurative language were identified. Then, how each type was
employed to express different fantasy sense was described. The next step

was to describe the connection between the five most commonly-used
figurative language and the five most commonly-found fantasy senses in
relation to the theoretical concept. To ensure the trustworthiness of the
analysis, 30% of the data investigated by the researcher was validated by
the expert in the field of English Language Arts. After gaining 87% agreement
(Miles and Huberman, 1994), the researcher continued to work with the
remaining data and conceptualize the final findings. Finally, theoretical
concepts regarding the investigated phenomenon were summarized.

4. Results
1. Figurative Language and Fantasy Senses

1.1 Figurative Language Employed in Fantasy Films
The results revealed that 150 English figurative expressions
were found. To note, some figurative expressions display more than one
fantasy sense. Based on the theoretical framework of figurative language
suggested by Pickering and Hoeper (1994), the findings showed that there
were 13 types of figurative language that express fantasy senses found in
the two films including metaphor, hyperbole, personification, irony, repetition,

simile, symbol, synecdoche, allegory, metonymy, allusion, pun, and paradox.
From the total of 13 types of figures of speech, the 5 most common types
(appearing more frequently than 8%) are metaphor (25.45%) followed by