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Download full textNtabo, Victor Ondara; Onyango, James Ogola; Ndiritu, Nelson Ng'arua – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2022
Food is useful in the transference of semantic aspects that are vital in the construction of masculinity in society. Consequently, foodsemic metaphors that aid in the conceptualization of "omosacha" (a man) are pervasive in Ekegusii. Metaphor use may, however, present difficulties in comprehension due to the various interpretations that…
Descriptors: Food, Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Masculinity
Hussein, Khalid Shakir; Ameer, May Ali Abdul – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This paper represents an attempt to conduct a corpus-based stylistic analysis of two conceptual metaphors in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," which is a novel written by Milan Kundera. "Soul-body" and "lightness-heaviness" metaphors are foregrounded as being central themes all through the novel. The way such…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Novels, Semantics, Figurative Language
