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Metaphors of love in Gikũyũ: conceptual mappings, vital relations and image schemas
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Gathigia, Moses Gatambũki |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | The research set out to identify and describe the conceptual mappings of metaphors of love in Gĩkũyũ; to test the extent to which the vital relations account for the underlying cognitive operations of metaphors of love in Gĩkũyũ; to test the extent to which image schemas provide a plausible account for the comprehension of love metaphors; and to determine by statistical means how demographic variables influence the metaphorical conceptualization of love in Gĩkũyũ. To achieve the objectives of the study, this research employed both qualitative and quantitative data research techniques. An interview schedule was administered to 48 respondents of different gender, age brackets, Christian denominations and educational qualifications by the researcher assisted by four research assistants. The study employed the Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije Universiteit (MIPVU), an extended version of Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP), to find out whether the lexical items collected were metaphorical. The qualitative data were analysed thematically by coding categories which were then organized according to conceptual mappings, vital relations and image schemas. Using four annotators, including the researcher, the study identified 100 Metaphor Related Words (MRWs) as per the annotation guidelines adapted from the MIPVU procedures and three lexical units which were annotated as Discard From Metaphor Analysis. The study also classified the Metaphor Related Words as direct MRWs, indirect MRWs and Possible Personifications. Generic-level metaphors of love in Gĩkũyũ were identified from the source domain lexemes.The generic-level metaphors were then mapped into different kinds of conceptual mappings as posited by the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). Quantitative data were then coded and analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) in which Chi-square ( ), at a significance level of 0.05, was used to test the association between the overall cross tabulated corpus of the generic level metaphors vis-à-vis the influence of demographic variables on the usage of metaphors of love in Gĩkũyũ. The study found that the demographic variables of gender, age, education and religion emerge as influencing variables in determining the usage of metaphors of love in Gĩkũyũ when percentages of individual conceptual metaphor within metaphor were considered. However, Chi square analyses against the overall cross tabulated generic level metaphors showed insignificant association between the demographic variables (with the exception of the gender variable) and metaphorical conceptualization of love in Gĩkũyũ. The study also found that the vital relations discussed in this study: Analogy, Disanalogy, Uniqueness, Part-Whole, Similarity, Category, Cause-Effect and Intentionality are crucial to the understanding of love in Gĩkũyũ. In addition, the study noted that embodied experience manifests itself at the cognitive level in terms of the CONTAINER, PATH, FORCE and OBJECT image schemas and their subsidiary schemas. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/123456789/12099/Metaphors%20of%20love%20in%20gik%C5%A9y%C5%A9.....pdf;jsessionid=D3A5FC206B496ED9F6A32F7FC944DB57?sequence=1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
