Sérgio N. Menete

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sérgio N. Menete plays a role.

Articles

Menete, Sérgio N. and Guiying Jiang 2024 The semantics of the polysemic Amharic word fit ‘face’: For a new perspective in the cross-linguistic study of body-part terms Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines the figurative conceptualization of the polysemic Amharic word fit ‘face.’ Based primarily on the “lexical approach,” the study shows how the meaning of “face” extends metaphorically and metonymically to such abstract concepts as time, emotions, and the intellect. Most of the… read more
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Menete, Sérgio N. and Guiying Jiang 2021 Red-hot faces and burnt hearts: A nger is heat metaphor from Amharic and Changana perspective Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:2, pp. 482–516 | Article
People from different languages draw from the knowledge they have from the domain of heat (source domain) and apply it to the domain of anger (target domain) through metaphor. This was also found to be the case with Amharic and Changana. Our study investigates how anger is metaphorically… read more