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Mohammed Sani Ya’u
Cross-linguistic research on conceptual metaphor requires comparable data, consistent annotation and clear reporting. These requirements become more difficult when the languages being compared have different lexical systems and unequal … each verb. Metaphorical uses were identified through the Metaphor Identification Procedure, while the resulting conceptual mappings were interpreted within Sweetser’s (1990) Mind-as-Body account and Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze and Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie
Heart of Redness and Alaa Al Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building as conceptual metaphors of coloniality. The study adopts George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory … Quijano’s concept of coloniality of power and Mignolo’s decolonial perspective provide supporting conceptual context. Using qualitative close textual analysis, the study examines the metaphorical structures of the selected
Yahaya Ibrahim Aliyu and Ado Mamuda
This study investigates the use of conceptual metaphor in the second chapter of the Holy Quran, focusing on how metaphorical language conveys complex theological, moral, and spiritual concepts. Drawing … Conceptual Metaphor Theory by Lakoff & Johnson (1980), the research examines the systematic mapping between source and target domains, revealing how abstract ideas such as faith, guidance, divine justice, and human
Bello Ibrahim and Funke Oni Josephine
government intervention and policy responses. The study uses a corpus-assisted qualitative design and conceptual metaphor theory developed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) to investigate poverty-related discourse in Daily … concordance results, and they were then coded and analysed in accordance with the conceptual metaphor domains and discourse functions that they referred to. The findings shown that poverty was conceptualised
Alawode, Liasu Adebamiji Akinkunmi
proverbial and post-proverbial expressions documented in previous studies. The analysis is guided by Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Feminist Translation Theory. Conceptual Metaphor Theory is used to identify source- target
Nwakaire Esther Nkechi, Ozor Gloria Nwando and David-Ojukwu Ifeyinwa
perpetrators in Nigerian online rape reports from 2019 to 2025. It also examines what conceptual metaphors reveal about the framing of sexual violence. The analysis centres on the pivotal June
Mathias Okey Chukwu and Favour Raphael Ntor
drug advertisements in Southeast Nigeria. The study is anchored on Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory (1980) and Entman’s Framing Theory (1993). A descriptive qualitative methodology was adopted … states. The advertisements were recorded, transcribed, and analysed using the combined theoretical lenses of conceptual metaphor and framing. The findings reveal a systematic use of metaphors to medicalise normal male
Awe, I B
providing the principal framework for interpreting evaluative meaning. The findings indicate that metaphor provides conceptual frames through which football is represented in terms of warfare, medicine, nature, machinery, recovery
Olugbenga Seminapa Okesola
addressing complex human and ecological questions. This paper proceeds by philosophical reconstruction and comparative conceptual analysis, drawing on scholarship of Yoruba and African philosophers rather than by empirical or ethnographic
Pascal Iheanacho OHANMA and Onwuamaeze S. ALI
foreground human-nonhuman relationality and resist neo-colonial ecocide. Together, these texts re-conceptualize Caribbean environments not as passive backdrops to catastrophe, but as active sites of postcolonial ecological resistance