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1. Gender and Cultural StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 463–481PDF of Translating Gendered Metaphor in Yoruba – English Discourse: Ideology, Representation, and Cultural Mediation

   Translating Gendered Metaphor in Yoruba – English Discourse: Ideology, Representation, and Cultural Mediation

   Alawode, Liasu Adebamiji Akinkunmi

   This article examines the translation of gendered metaphor in Yoruba – English discourse, focusing on how metaphorical representations of gender are retained, transformed, attenuated, intensified, or reframed in English. The study … 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 mappings through which women, sexuality

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 1–21PDF of Conceptual Metaphors in the Second Chapter of the Holy Qur’an: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis

   Conceptual Metaphors in the Second Chapter of the Holy Qur’an: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis

   Yahaya Ibrahim Aliyu and Ado Mamuda

   readers’ cognitive understanding and emotional engagement with the text. Utilizing Yusuf Ali’s English translation of the Quran as the primary data source. The findings indicate that conceptual metaphors

3. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 22–42PDF of From Concordance Lines to Conceptual Mappings: A Corpus-Assisted Comparison of Perception Metaphors in English and Hausa Romance Fiction

   From Concordance Lines to Conceptual Mappings: A Corpus-Assisted Comparison of Perception Metaphors in English and Hausa Romance Fiction

   Mohammed Sani Ya’u

   presents a transparent workflow that keeps corpus composition, lexical retrieval, metaphor identification, conceptual classification, translation. and reliability assessment as distinct stages