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Conceptual metaphor and image schema representations of cancer-related deaths of selected prominent Kenyan personalities in the print media ...
Cellyne Anudo; Benard Kodak. - : figshare, 2020
Abstract: Conceptual metaphors pervade everyday conversations but are used unconsciously. A sample of metaphorical expressions used to express the abstract entity death was collected from two local dailies that is, The Daily Nation and The Standard in Kenya. The deaths that formed the point of focus for this study are those of three prominent Kenyan personalities: Bob Collymore, the then Chief Executive Officer of Safaricom , Ken Okoth, the then Kibra MP and Joyce Laboso, the then governor of Bomet County all of whom died in month of July 2019. Conceptual metaphors of death were derived from the metaphorical expressions and analysed using Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) theory of Conceptual Metaphors and Johnson’s (1987) theory of Image Schemas. Steen’s (1999) five-step procedure that assists in the identification of conceptual metaphor was employed. The metaphorical expressions of death were extracted and classified with regard to their connectedness. The data for the study was thereafter analysed qualitatively. A ...
Keyword: 170204 Linguistic Processes incl. Speech Production and Comprehension; 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics; 200405 Language in Culture and Society Sociolinguistics; FOS Languages and literature; FOS Psychology; Linguistics
URL: https://figshare.com/articles/Conceptual_metaphor_and_image_schema_representations_of_cancer-related_deaths_of_selected_prominent_Kenyan_personalities_in_the_print_media/12611168/1
https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12611168.v1
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Conceptual metaphor and image schema representations of cancer-related deaths of selected prominent Kenyan personalities in the print media ...
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Conceptual metaphor and image schema representations of cancer-related deaths of selected prominent Kenyan personalities in the print media ...
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