Metaphoric Conceptualizations of Death in Gĩkũyũ

dc.contributor.authorGathigia, Moses Gatambuki
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-22T09:04:14Z
dc.date.available2020-10-22T09:04:14Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionDOI : 10.17791/jcs.2017.18.2.215en_US
dc.description.abstractUsing 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. To achieve this objective, a purposive sample of twenty speakers of Gĩkũyũ was interviewed. The study collected 47 metaphors of death as the target domain. Having employed the mnemonics “TARGET DOMAIN IS SOURCE DOMAIN” as posited by Lakoff and Johnson (1980), the study identified four conceptual metaphors of death in Gĩkũyũ as follows: DEATH IS A JOURNEY; DEATH IS THE END; DEATH IS A REST; and DEATH IS A SUMMON. The study concludes that the Cognitive linguistics model provides tools for understanding, interpreting and accounting for metaphors of death in Gĩkũyũ.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Cognitive Science 18-2: 215-235, 2017en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://karuspace.karu.ac.ke/handle/20.500.12092/2442
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKOAJKorea Open Access Journalsen_US
dc.subjectDeathen_US
dc.subjectmetaphorsen_US
dc.subjectGĩkũyũen_US
dc.subjectcognitive linguisticsen_US
dc.titleMetaphoric Conceptualizations of Death in Gĩkũyũen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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