Metaphor, religion, and gender: a case study of metaphor analysis in Islamic motivational speech corpus / Norasyikin Abdul Malik and Faizah Mohamad
Metaphor plays a vital role in human communication and its presence is evident in various discourses across genres. Nevertheless, there is a scarcity in the study of metaphors used among different genders especially in religious dis-course. Thus, the current study aims to examine metaphor use in rel...
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| description | Metaphor plays a vital role in human communication and its presence is evident in various discourses across genres. Nevertheless, there is a scarcity in the study of metaphors used among different genders especially in religious dis-course. Thus, the current study aims to examine metaphor use in religious motivational speeches between two (male and female) speakers. A corpus-based approach, that involved analysis of keywords, collocation, and concordance, was selected in identifying linguistic metaphors while conceptual mapping (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) was chosen to identify conceptual metaphors in both corpora. The main data consist of four speeches of Yasmin Mogahed (YM Cor-pus) and four speeches of Nouman Ali Khan’s speeches (NAK Corpus) retrieved from their YouTube Channels. #LancsBox 5.0 was chosen as the tool in analyzing the language patterns. From the findings, it can be concluded Yasmin used a higher frequency of metaphors compared to Nouman. This is evident from the results in the collocation analysis in YM corpus that showed seven collocates (‘SWT’, ‘heart’, ‘foundation’, ‘healthy’, ‘fear’, ‘solid’, and ‘fill’) were predetermined to have signals of metaphorical expressions as compared to NAK corpus that only has four collocates (‘evil’, ‘syirik’, ‘religion’, and ‘faith’) with signals of metaphorical expressions. It is also apparent that the variety of metaphors used by Yasmin is more diverse (BUILDING, HUMAN/LIVING ORGANISM, TREE, and CONTAINER metaphors) as compared to Nouman that only uses COMPUTER FILE and CONTAINER metaphors. Yasmin’s choice of metaphors seems to be heavily influenced with the common metaphors used in the Quran, while Nouman’s lack choice of metaphors indicate his preference in explaining religious concepts through literal explanation instead of metaphorical one. Future studies are recommended to have a bigger sample to better differentiate the metaphor usage between genders. It is also imperative for future research to further examine the implications of different choice of metaphors on the construction of meaning in the Islamic motivational religious corpus between different genders. |
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| spelling | oai:ir.uitm.edu.my:61092022-07-04T01:35:05Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/6109/ Metaphor, religion, and gender: a case study of metaphor analysis in Islamic motivational speech corpus / Norasyikin Abdul Malik and Faizah Mohamad ijmal Mohamad, Faizah Abdul Malik, Norasyikin Small and medium-sized business. History Attribution of news. Reporters and reporting Metaphor plays a vital role in human communication and its presence is evident in various discourses across genres. Nevertheless, there is a scarcity in the study of metaphors used among different genders especially in religious dis-course. Thus, the current study aims to examine metaphor use in religious motivational speeches between two (male and female) speakers. A corpus-based approach, that involved analysis of keywords, collocation, and concordance, was selected in identifying linguistic metaphors while conceptual mapping (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) was chosen to identify conceptual metaphors in both corpora. The main data consist of four speeches of Yasmin Mogahed (YM Cor-pus) and four speeches of Nouman Ali Khan’s speeches (NAK Corpus) retrieved from their YouTube Channels. #LancsBox 5.0 was chosen as the tool in analyzing the language patterns. From the findings, it can be concluded Yasmin used a higher frequency of metaphors compared to Nouman. This is evident from the results in the collocation analysis in YM corpus that showed seven collocates (‘SWT’, ‘heart’, ‘foundation’, ‘healthy’, ‘fear’, ‘solid’, and ‘fill’) were predetermined to have signals of metaphorical expressions as compared to NAK corpus that only has four collocates (‘evil’, ‘syirik’, ‘religion’, and ‘faith’) with signals of metaphorical expressions. It is also apparent that the variety of metaphors used by Yasmin is more diverse (BUILDING, HUMAN/LIVING ORGANISM, TREE, and CONTAINER metaphors) as compared to Nouman that only uses COMPUTER FILE and CONTAINER metaphors. Yasmin’s choice of metaphors seems to be heavily influenced with the common metaphors used in the Quran, while Nouman’s lack choice of metaphors indicate his preference in explaining religious concepts through literal explanation instead of metaphorical one. Future studies are recommended to have a bigger sample to better differentiate the metaphor usage between genders. It is also imperative for future research to further examine the implications of different choice of metaphors on the construction of meaning in the Islamic motivational religious corpus between different genders. Universiti Teknologi MARA 2021-07 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/6109/1/6109.pdf Metaphor, religion, and gender: a case study of metaphor analysis in Islamic motivational speech corpus / Norasyikin Abdul Malik and Faizah Mohamad. (2021) International Journal of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics (IJMAL) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/International_Journal_of_Modern_Languages_and_Applied_Linguistics_=28IJMAL=29/>, 5 (3): 5. pp. 95-121. ISSN 2600-7266 http://myjms.mohe.gov.my/ https://doi.org/10.24191/ijmal.v5i3.13350 https://doi.org/10.24191/ijmal.v5i3.13350 |
| spellingShingle | Small and medium-sized business. History Attribution of news. Reporters and reporting Mohamad, Faizah Abdul Malik, Norasyikin Metaphor, religion, and gender: a case study of metaphor analysis in Islamic motivational speech corpus / Norasyikin Abdul Malik and Faizah Mohamad |
| title | Metaphor, religion, and gender: a case study of metaphor analysis in Islamic motivational speech corpus / Norasyikin Abdul Malik and Faizah Mohamad |
| title_full | Metaphor, religion, and gender: a case study of metaphor analysis in Islamic motivational speech corpus / Norasyikin Abdul Malik and Faizah Mohamad |
| title_fullStr | Metaphor, religion, and gender: a case study of metaphor analysis in Islamic motivational speech corpus / Norasyikin Abdul Malik and Faizah Mohamad |
| title_full_unstemmed | Metaphor, religion, and gender: a case study of metaphor analysis in Islamic motivational speech corpus / Norasyikin Abdul Malik and Faizah Mohamad |
| title_short | Metaphor, religion, and gender: a case study of metaphor analysis in Islamic motivational speech corpus / Norasyikin Abdul Malik and Faizah Mohamad |
| title_sort | metaphor religion and gender a case study of metaphor analysis in islamic motivational speech corpus norasyikin abdul malik and faizah mohamad |
| topic | Small and medium-sized business. History Attribution of news. Reporters and reporting |
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