Linguistic metaphor identification in Sesotho

Seepheephe, Ntšoeu; Ekanjume-Ilongo, Beatrice; Thuube, Motlalepula Raphael

doi:10.1075/celcr.22.13see

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“…One of the reasons for considering the English translation is that it involves a language that comes from a different family from Sesotho and is typologically different from Sesotho. As a Bantu language, Sesotho is agglutinative (Seepheephe et al, 2019), while Indo-European English is analytic. Furthermore, the two languages come from two different cultures, with Sesotho spoken in Southern Africa and English spoken mainly and therefore influenced by cultures of Europe and North America.…”

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“…We collected the data by identifying metaphorically used words in the Source Text (ST). We used the Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije University (MIPVU) proposed by Steen et al (2019) to identify metaphors in both the ST and the Target, employing the specific protocol adjusted for Sesotho by Seepheephe (2019) for identification of metaphors in the Sesotho text. According to MIPVU, a metaphorically-used word is one whose contextual meaning contrasts with its basic meaning but can be understood in comparison to it (Steen et al 2019).…”

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The discourse-based approach towards the translation of metaphors: ‘Journey’, ‘movement’, and ‘body metaphors’ in translation of the Sesotho novel “Chaka”

SEEPHEEPHE,

MAKHA-NTLALOE

2021

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In a departure from other studies on metaphor translation, this paper employs the discourse-based approach to examine the procedures employed in translation of metaphors used in the Sesotho novel, Chaka, into English. The findings show that there is an alignment with Newmark’s (1988) framework even though the framework is prescriptive and is based on the traditional view of metaphor as purely linguistic. The substitution of a metaphor with a metaphor is the most frequent procedure. There is also the translation of metaphor into simile, the translation of metaphor into sense and the deletion of metaphor. The factors that determine the procedures are: the existence of metaphors with very close similar semantic and pragmatic functions; the existence of TL metaphors that are based on the same cognitive mappings as the SL metaphors, and closely resemble them; the existence of culture-specific metaphors that can be only be decoded if converted to simile; existence of culture-specific metaphors that may not be decoded even if simile is used and the employment of a metaphor for a rhetorical style that is foreign to TT readers. The use of the procedures creates a text that is idiomatic and generally resembles the ST in message, style and language.

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The discourse-based approach towards the translation of metaphors: ‘Journey’, ‘movement’, and ‘body metaphors’ in translation of the Sesotho novel “Chaka”

SEEPHEEPHE,

MAKHA-NTLALOE

2021

JULACE

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“…Yes, we identify sexti as a metaphor. Apart from English now (Pragglejaz Group, 2007;Steen et al, 2010c), this procedure has been tested for many other languages, such as Arabic (Abdelhameed, 2019), Chinese (Wang et al, 2019), Czech (Pavlas et al, 2018), Dutch (Pasma, 2019), French (Reijnierse, 2019), German (Herrmann et al, 2019), isiXhosa (Nokele, 2014), Lithuanian (Urbonaitė, 2015;Urbonaitė et al, 2019), Persian (Assi et al, 2022), Polish (Marhula & Rosiński, 2019), Russian (Badryzlova et al, 2013), Scandinavian , Serbian (Bogetić et al, 2019), Sesotho (Seepheephe et al, 2019), and Uzbek (Kaya, 2019). Since languages have their own distinct nature, adjustments have been proposed to MIP(VU) for different languages.…”

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Metaphor Identification Procedure and Its Application in Kurdish Political Speeches

2023

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A case study of comparative metaphor analysis in Finnish and Hungarian news texts

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Gábor

2024

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Despite remarkable previous results of cognitive linguistic analysis of metaphorization in Finnish and Hungarian even in a cross-linguistic context (Huumo 2019; Máthé 2022), a systematic comparative study of the patterns of linguistic metaphors in these two languages is still to be carried out. The aim of this paper is to fill this research gap by proposing a MIPVU-inspired protocol for metaphor identification in languages with rich morphology and presenting the preliminary results of a small-scale corpus analysis. The study is organized around the following questions: (i) How can we adapt and extend the original MIPVU method for agglutinative Uralic languages like Hungarian and Finnish? (ii) How can we implement the adapted method in a collaborative parallel annotation process of sampled news texts? (iii) What are the differences in metaphorical patterns between Finnish and Hungarian? The paper details the adapted protocol of MIPVU for the Hungarian language (Simon et al. 2023), and how it can be applied to Finnish, demonstrating its applicability in a research corpus. Our findings demonstrate a relatively similar metaphorization in Hungarian and Finnish with slight differences in terms of the frequency of metaphorical expressions, their semantic relations, and the complexity of argument structure constructions.

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Linguistic metaphor identification in Sesotho

Cited by 7 publications

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The discourse-based approach towards the translation of metaphors: ‘Journey’, ‘movement’, and ‘body metaphors’ in translation of the Sesotho novel “Chaka”

The discourse-based approach towards the translation of metaphors: ‘Journey’, ‘movement’, and ‘body metaphors’ in translation of the Sesotho novel “Chaka”

Metaphor Identification Procedure and Its Application in Kurdish Political Speeches

A case study of comparative metaphor analysis in Finnish and Hungarian news texts

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