A COGNITIVE SEMANTIC STUDY OF METAPHORS IN FULFULDE
A COGNITIVE SEMANTIC STUDY OF METAPHORS IN FULFULDE
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2023-07
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ABDULLAHI, HADIYAH
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Abstract
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
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF ARTS (M.A) DEGREE IN
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES,
FACULTY OF ARTS,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA