Conceptual metaphors in English and Shona: a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural study

Machakanja, Isaac

dc.contributor.advisor	Hendrikse, A.P.	en
dc.contributor.advisor	Dembetembe, N.C.	en
dc.contributor.author	Machakanja, Isaac	en
dc.date.accessioned	2009-08-25T10:47:45Z
dc.date.available	2009-08-25T10:47:45Z
dc.date.issued	2009-08-25T10:47:45Z
dc.date.submitted	2006-05	en
dc.identifier.citation	Machakanja, Isaac (2009) Conceptual metaphors in English and Shona: a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural study, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/905>	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/905
dc.description.abstract	The study is a comparative analysis of conceptual metaphors in English and Shona. The objectives of this study were: to compare the metaphorical expressions of English and Shona in the same or similar domains in order to establish on the one hand whether there are similarities and/or differences cross-linguistically and cross-culturally in the metaphorical construal of reality between these two languages and on the other hand, to establish what the underlying motivation is for the similarities and the differences between these two unrelated languages. The thesis also explores the reasons for the similarities in terms of particular assumptions underlying conceptual metaphors, that is, embodiment and ecological motivations.	en
dc.format.extent	1 onine resource(v, 211 leaves)
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Cultural and universal	en
dc.subject	Embodiment	en
dc.subject	Ecological	en
dc.subject	cross-cultural	en
dc.subject	Cross-linguistic	en
dc.subject	Conceptual schema	en
dc.subject	Ontological correspondences	en
dc.subject	Epistemological correspondences	en
dc.subject	Conceptual mapping	en
dc.subject	Target domain	en
dc.subject	Source domain	en
dc.subject	Conceptual metaphor	en
dc.subject.ddc	401.43
dc.subject.lcsh	English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Shona language
dc.subject.lcsh	Shona language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English language
dc.subject.lcsh	Shona language -- Figures of speech -- Cross-cultural studies
dc.subject.lcsh	Metaphor
dc.subject.lcsh	Figures of speech -- Cross-cultural studies
dc.subject.lcsh	Cognitive grammar
dc.subject.lcsh	Ecolinguistics
dc.title	Conceptual metaphors in English and Shona: a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural study	en
dc.type	Thesis	en
dc.description.department	Linguistics and Modern Languages	en
dc.description.degree	D. Litt. et Phil. (Linguistics)	en