“Journey, Rest, Gate and Garment”: A Cross-cultural Cognitive Analysis of Metaphors Used in Breaking News of Death
Hameed Tunde Asiru & Aminu Galadima Batagarawa · Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences · 2019
How is death conceptualized in Hausa and Yoruba languages? Are there any linguistic similarities or differences in the ways they break news of death? This paper notes that language is not carelessly used to establish interactional and transactional functions among interactants; r...
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10.9734/ARJASS/2019/43413