Browsing Department of Humanities and Languages by Subject "cognitive linguistics"

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    • Metaphoric Conceptualizations of Death in Gĩkũyũ 

      Gathigia, Moses Gatambuki (KOAJKorea Open Access Journals, 2017)
      Using the dictum that metaphor is a conceptual mapping from a concrete source domain to an abstract target domain, this paper identifies and categorizes the metaphors of death in Gĩkũyũ using the Conceptual Metaphor Theory. ...

    • REPRESENTATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN EKEGUSII PROVERBIAL METAPHORS: AN IMAGE SCHEMATIC ACCOUNT 

      Ndung’u, Catherine Waithera; Ntaboi, Victor Ondara (2023-05)
      Proverbial metaphors are useful resources for communicating known truths about life in a given community. Most African proverbial metaphors, however, make reference to customs and situations that might be unfamiliar ...