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Conceptualization Of Women Through Metaphor By Bilingual Lukabras-English Speakers
ISSN: 2617 - 0299
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Conceptualization Of Women Through Metaphor By Bilingual Lukabras-English Speakers
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International Category Code (ICC):
ICC-0902
Publisher: International Journal Of Linguistics, Literature And Trans..
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IAA.ZONE/261741160299
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Abstract
This study employs the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) to investigate bilingual conceptual representation. The study analyses the metaphorical expressions commonly used among Lukabras-English bilinguals in Western Kenya in conceptualizing feminine terms when they speak English. This was motivated by the fact that cognitive linguistics research on human mental representation tends to focus on evidence from monolingual populations. Therefore, the study analyses bilingual figurative language in order to correlate bilingual conceptual representation with the native cognition. A combined method of data elicitation from Lukabras-English bilinguals and the native speaker’s intuition was used to collect conventional metaphorical expressions of women metaphors from the respondents. Conceptual metaphors that are believed to underlie the metaphorical expressions of women were then inferred for analysis. The bilingual metaphors were correlated...
