Metaphors in Shona: A Cognitive Approach

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dc.contributor.author	Mberi, N.E	-
dc.date.accessioned	2006-07-21T08:18:46Z	-
dc.date.available	2006-07-21T08:18:46Z	-
dc.date.issued	2003	-
dc.identifier.citation	Mberi, N.E. ''Metaphors in Shona: A Cognitive Approach.'' Zambezia 30.1(2003): 72-88.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10646/449	-
dc.description.abstract	This article discuses the pervasiveness of metaphors in everyday Shona language. It argues that metaphorical expressions are not mere words, but they are part of a much bigger way of conceptualising things. Examples are given to show how everyday metaphorical expressions are based on a much larger set of conceptual metaphors. The article takes a cognitive view which sees metaphors as one of the basic human strategies for dealing with our environment in that we use existing physical concepts in our evironment to conceptualise more abstract concepts. This kind of metaphorical extension from one domain to another plays a very important role in the extension of the lexicon	en
dc.format.extent	80851 bytes	-
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	-
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	University of Zimbabwe Publications	en
dc.subject	Shona	en
dc.subject	metaphors	en
dc.subject	language	en
dc.subject	metaphorical expressions	en
dc.title	Metaphors in Shona: A Cognitive Approach	en
dc.type	Article	en
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