Ruth Wangeci Ndungu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ruth Wangeci Ndungu plays a role.
Article
2018. Foodsemic metaphors of love in Gĩkũyũ: Insights from cognitive semantics. Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:2, pp. 341–358
Using the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this study discusses the transfer of semantic aspects of foodsemic metaphors upon the abstraction of love. An interview schedule was administered to 48 respondents of different gender by the researchers assisted by two research assistants. The data collected… read more | Article