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  • Animal Metaphor in Gĩkũyũ 

    Gachugi, Florence G.; Sikuku, Justine; Kiliku, Patrick (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2018)
    Animal metaphors are prevalent in many languages. Animals are closely related to the human beings and they provide a rich basis for the conceptualization of human beings and their activities. Using the cognitive ...

  • Systematic Polysemy in Gĩkũyũ 

    Gachugi, Florence G.; Sikuku, Justine; Kiliku, Patrick (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2018)
    Polysemy is a phenomenon whereby words have multiple distinct yet related senses. These senses are related in a systematic way and form systematic patterns. This paper explores the different systematic patterns of ...

  • The Polysemy Of The Gĩkũyũ Nouns That Denote Celestial Bodies 

    Gachugi, Florence G. (International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies, 2018)
    This paper examines from a Cognitive Linguistic approach the polysemy of the GĩKũYũ nouns from the semantic field of celestial bodies namely: mweri “moon”, njata “star” and riua “sun”.These nouns have multiple meanings ...

  • Conceptual Metaphors and Perception Verbs in GĩKũYũ 

    Gachũgĩ, Florence G. (International Journal of Linguistics, 2018)
    This paper examines the polysemy that exists in the semantic field of perception verbs in Gĩkũyũ which is a Bantu Language of the Niger – Congo group spoken in Kenya. These verbs do not only convey the meanings that are ...

  • The Polysemy of the Gikũyũ Body Part Terms Kĩongo ‘Head’ and Gũtũ ‘Ear’: a Cognitive Linguistic Approach 

    Gachugi, Florence G.; Justine, Sikuku; Kiliku, Patrick (International Journal of Education and Research, 2018-03-03)
    Polysemy is defined as a phenomenon where a single linguistic unit has several yet related meanings (Evans and Green 2006). Using the Cognitive Linguistics Approach, this paper analyses the polysemy of two Gikũyũ body ...

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