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Publication details [#66173]

Naicker, Suren. 2019. An Analysis of Northern Sotho Idioms with Reference to Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 50 (1) : 115–136.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

native speaker | text | translation

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper assays a selection of idiomatic expressions -chosen from two texts, and attested by six native speakers of Northern Sotho- employing Conceptual Metaphor Theory as analytical framework.