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A COGNITIVE SEMANTIC STUDY OF METAPHORS IN FULFULDE
(2023-07) ABDULLAHI, HADIYAH
This studyis on cognitive semantic analysis of the metaphors in Fulfulde. Fulfulde language belongs to the West Atlantic geographical grouping within the Niger Congo family and the language has six dialectal areas. The objectives of this research are to examine how Fulfulde conceptualises metaphor, the relationship between the components of metaphor, and the deliberateness of the metaphor as propounded by Steen‟s (2017) Deliberate Metaphor Theory. The theoretical framework chosen for this study is Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT). The data were collected through surreptitious recording and stratified random selection of different registers such as anger, marriage, politics, religion, and reality. The data comprises of corpus design and recordings. Upon the analysis, the findings obtained corresponded with the research questions by answering how Fulfulde knowledge representation through conceptualization does not follow the pattern of target (abstract) and source (concrete) domains. The study reveals that Fulfulde conceptualisation of metaphor can be potentially deliberate or non-Deliberate in knowledge representation by choices of lexical items. The study concludes thatFulƃe metaphorical expressions through experiences can constrain the representation of metaphors and these metaphors are sometimes culture specific