The semantics of eating in Afrikaans and Northern Sotho : cross-linguistic variation in metaphor

dc.contributor.authorTaljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth)
dc.contributor.authorBosman, Nerina
dc.contributor.emailelsabe.taljard@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-26T07:02:33Z
dc.date.issued2014-07
dc.description.abstractThe abundant and systematic presence of metaphor in language has in particular been explored by departing from the embodied nature of many metaphors. In the current research we investigate the manner in which the concept EATING in two nonrelated languages, namely Afrikaans (a Germanic language) and Northern Sotho (a Bantu language) gives rise to metaphorical expressions in these two languages. The two notions of cultural model and metaphor form the cornerstones of our research. The basic question guiding our research is whether the metaphorical mappings originating from the same source domain (EATING) onto various target domains are the same in the two languages and secondly, whether there is any evidence that differences – if any – are culturally motivated. Our study is corpus-based. Lexical items belonging to the source domain of eating were used as search nodes in our corpus search. Our analysis indicates that the metaphorical source domain – target domain mappings in the two languages show a large amount of overlap. As far as the metaphors that we identified are concerned, remarkable similarities and very few - and these not significant - differences were found.en_US
dc.description.embargo2016-01-31
dc.description.librarianhb2014en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hmet20en_US
dc.identifier.citationElsabé Taljard & Nerina Bosman (2014) The Semantics of Eating in Afrikaans and Northern Sotho: Cross-linguistic Variation in Metaphor, Metaphor and Symbol, 29:3, 224-245, DOI:10.1080/10926488.2014.924306.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1092-6488 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1532-7868 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/10926488.2014.924306
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/41590
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.rights© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an electronic version of an article published in Metaphor and Symbol, vol. 29, no.3, pp. 224-245, 2014. doi : 10.1080/10926488.2014.924306. Metaphor and Symbol is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hmet20.en_US
dc.subjectEatingen_US
dc.subjectAfrikaansen_US
dc.subjectNorthern Sothoen_US
dc.subjectEmbodimenten_US
dc.subjectMetaphoren_US
dc.subjectCultureen_US
dc.subjectCorpus-based researchen_US
dc.titleThe semantics of eating in Afrikaans and Northern Sotho : cross-linguistic variation in metaphoren_US
dc.typePostprint Articleen_US

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