The polysemy of body part terms in Hausa within the frame of Image Schemas
Body part-terms have been identified as a productive source of figurative lexical meanings as well as grammatical meanings (Heine, et al. 1991). The paper adopts descriptive lexical semantics as a model of approach. This paves the way to examine the relationships that exist between different interpr...
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| description | Body part-terms have been identified as a productive source of figurative lexical meanings as well as grammatical meanings (Heine, et al. 1991). The paper adopts descriptive lexical semantics as a model of approach. This paves the way to examine the relationships that exist between different interpretations of words. Virtually, every language exhibits rich set of semantic extensions of body part-terms, highlighting the importance of the human body for lexical and grammatical structure (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980). Most meaning extensions of body part-terms can be shown to have a clear motivation through either metaphor or metonymy, as has been argued in many studies before (Allan, 1995). The paper provides a rich inventory of body part-terms in Hausa and interprets the variety of their meanings in terms of conceptualization patterns.
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| spelling | doaj.art-49245c5f368541779f48b99848f6b23c2022-12-21T20:09:00ZdeuUniversity of Warsaw PressStudies in African Languages and Cultures2545-21342657-41872013-12-014737The polysemy of body part terms in Hausa within the frame of Image SchemasTijjani Shehu Almajir0Bayero University, KanoBody part-terms have been identified as a productive source of figurative lexical meanings as well as grammatical meanings (Heine, et al. 1991). The paper adopts descriptive lexical semantics as a model of approach. This paves the way to examine the relationships that exist between different interpretations of words. Virtually, every language exhibits rich set of semantic extensions of body part-terms, highlighting the importance of the human body for lexical and grammatical structure (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980). Most meaning extensions of body part-terms can be shown to have a clear motivation through either metaphor or metonymy, as has been argued in many studies before (Allan, 1995). The paper provides a rich inventory of body part-terms in Hausa and interprets the variety of their meanings in terms of conceptualization patterns. https://salc.uw.edu.pl/index.php/SALC/article/view/93body partcompositional polysemysemantic extensionmetonymyHausa |
| spellingShingle | Tijjani Shehu Almajir The polysemy of body part terms in Hausa within the frame of Image Schemas Studies in African Languages and Cultures body part compositional polysemy semantic extension metonymy Hausa |
| title | The polysemy of body part terms in Hausa within the frame of Image Schemas |
| title_full | The polysemy of body part terms in Hausa within the frame of Image Schemas |
| title_fullStr | The polysemy of body part terms in Hausa within the frame of Image Schemas |
| title_full_unstemmed | The polysemy of body part terms in Hausa within the frame of Image Schemas |
| title_short | The polysemy of body part terms in Hausa within the frame of Image Schemas |
| title_sort | polysemy of body part terms in hausa within the frame of image schemas |
| topic | body part compositional polysemy semantic extension metonymy Hausa |
| url | https://salc.uw.edu.pl/index.php/SALC/article/view/93 |
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