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Publication details [#58631]

Taljard, Elsabé and Nerina Bosman. 2014. The Semantics of Eating in Afrikaans and Northern Sotho: Cross-linguistic Variation in Metaphor. Metaphor and Symbol 29 (3) : 224–245.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This study explores how the EATING concept in two unrelated languages, i.e. Afrikaans (a Germanic language) and Northern Sotho (a Bantu language) induces metaphorical expressions. This corpus-based study shows that the metaphorical source-domain target-domain mappings in the two languages greatly overlap. As regards the distinguished metaphors, noticable similarities and very few and unimportant dissimilarities were found.