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Negotiating language barriers: Customer care delivery practices of a selected telecommunication company in Ghana 协商语言障碍:加纳选定的一家电信公司的客户服务交付实践

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-28 DOI: 10.1558/sols.41465

G. Diabah

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Isn’t the perception of LIKE by California college students, like, paradoxical? 加州大学生对LIKE的看法不是很矛盾吗?

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-28 DOI: 10.1558/sols.40480

Pierre Habasque

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Marriages of unequal languages: Use of Bidayuh among children from Chinese, Malay and Melanau mixed marriages 不平等语言的婚姻:华人、马来人、美拉瑙人混合婚姻的孩子使用比达耶语

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-28 DOI: 10.1558/sols.41152

S. Ting, Fallisca Evon Berek

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Language as Symbolic Power Claire Kramsch (2020) 语言作为象征力量Claire Kramsch (2020)

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-25 DOI: 10.1558/sols.10871

Ari Sherris

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Conceptualizing MATURITY in the Mfantse dialect of Akan 阿肯语Mfantse方言中成熟的概念化

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-25 DOI: 10.1558/sols.42341

Grace Nana Aba Dawson-Ahmoah, Patrick Nana Wonkyi

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A Conceptual Metaphor Theory analysis of anishi ‘eyes’-based metaphors in Gonja 《Gonja》中“眼睛”隐喻的概念隐喻理论分析

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-25 DOI: 10.1558/sols.42355

Kenneth Bodua-Mango

{"title":"A Conceptual Metaphor Theory analysis of anishi ‘eyes’-based metaphors in Gonja","authors":"Kenneth Bodua-Mango","doi":"10.1558/sols.42355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.42355","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides a Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) analysis of the metaphorical use of the body part anishi ‘eyes’ in Gonja, a North Guang Niger-Congo language spoken by some 310,000 people predominantly in the Northern and Savannah regions of Ghana. The use of body-part metaphors is an integral part of the daily repertoire of the average Gonja speaker. This article discusses how the anishi ‘eyes’-based expressions are grounded by the biological, psychological and socio-cultural functions of the eye. Prominent anishi ‘eyes’ mappings identified in the language include EMOTIONS/ATTITUDES ARE OBJECTS, ATTITUDES ARE POSSESSIONS, EYE STANDS FOR THE VIEW OR SIGHT, IDEAS AS OBJECTS, IDEAS ARE POSSESSIONS, KNOWLEDGE IS VISION, MANNER FOR ATTITUDE, PAYING ATTENTION IS SEEING, RED EYES ARE SERIOUS, UNAVAILABLE TO KNOWLEDGE IS INVISIBLE OR COVERED, and WET EYES ARE CAREFUL. Regarding the universalist and variationist dichotomy on metaphors, this article argues that, while there is evidence to support the universality of the conceptual metaphors, the importance of cross-cultural distinctiveness cannot be discounted. The data for this work is the product of elicitations from native speaker Gonja students at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana and complemented with data based on my intuitions as a Safaliba-Gonja bilingual first language speaker. Secondary sources of data include Afari-Twako (2017) and Agyekum (2018).","PeriodicalId":43912,"journal":{"name":"Sociolinguistic Studies","volume":"236 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72427997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Language Endangerment David Bradley and Maya Bradley (2019) 《语言濒危》大卫·布拉德利和玛雅·布拉德利(2019)

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-25 DOI: 10.1558/sols.34105

N. A. Agyeman

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‘The heart has caught me’: Anger metaphors in Likpakpaln (Konkomba) “心抓住了我”:《Likpakpaln》中的愤怒隐喻

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-25 DOI: 10.1558/sols.42338

Abraham Bisilki, K. Yakpo

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The semantic extensions of tu ‘to uproot’/‘to pull out’ in Nzema discourse: A Conceptual Metaphoric Perspective 从概念隐喻的角度看恩泽马语篇中tu“连根拔起”/“拔出”的语义延伸

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-25 DOI: 10.1558/sols.42390

M. Yakub

{"title":"The semantic extensions of tu ‘to uproot’/‘to pull out’ in Nzema discourse: A Conceptual Metaphoric Perspective","authors":"M. Yakub","doi":"10.1558/sols.42390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.42390","url":null,"abstract":"Nzema refers to both the language and the people who speak it. The language is spoken predominantly among the people who occupy the South-west part of the Western Region of Ghana as well as some parts of Cote d’Ivoire (Annan, 1980, 1994). Nzema forms part of the Niger-Congo Kwa language family. Many studies across languages have had their focus on the basic and extended usages of ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ (ingestion) verbs. Among such studies are Prins (1993), Newman (1997), Atintono and Adjei (2008), Aikhenvald (2009), Adjei (2013), Agyepong, Amfo and Osam (2017), and Otoo (2017). Several works, including Agyekum (2002, 2013, 2015a, 2015b, 2016) and Otoo (2018) have also examined the metaphorical extensions of human body parts and verbs of perception. In Nzema, however, studies on cultural schemas and conceptualisations are scanty. This paper, therefore, explores the basic and metaphorical interpretations of the disconnection verb, tu ‘to uproot’/‘to pull out’ in Nzema communication. The paper relies on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980) with insights from ‘Cultural Conceptual Metaphors’ (Sharifian, 2011). Data were obtained from spontaneous natural speech contexts among the Nzema. Additional data were gathered by consulting other written sources like Nzema novels and drama books to extract some expressions involving the verb tu. Interviews with knowledgeable Indigenous speakers and my introspection as a native speaker were significantly brought to bear on this study. The paper finds that the basic sense of the verb is possibly projected to describe other abstract notions such as tu ahonle ‘heart uproot’ (to be afraid); tu ay?ne ‘uproot witchcraft’ (to drive a demon out of a person), tu belemgbunli ‘uproot a chief’ (to distool a chief), tu edw?k? sie (to postpone/adjourn a case), among others. The paper shows that the verb tu is ‘polysemous’, and can participate in causative/inchoative alternation.","PeriodicalId":43912,"journal":{"name":"Sociolinguistic Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88791406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Resonating embodiment: Everyday metaphorical abstractions in Safaliba 共鸣的化身:萨法利巴的日常隐喻抽象

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-25 DOI: 10.1558/sols.42385

Ari Sherris, P. Schaefer, Eden Kosiaku

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