Animal Metaphors in English and Kurdish
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21271/zjhs.25.3.15الكلمات المفتاحية:
Animal Metaphor ,conceptual ,culture.الملخص
This study entitled "Animal Metaphors in English and Kurdish" focuses on animal metaphors .The researcher ,here, brings a number of definitions of the word metaphor . The foremost objective of this research is to know the culture of the two societies as far as the understanding of different types of animals is concerned. The aim is to show what similarities and differences represent cultural connotations in both languages. The significance of the research lies in the fact that learners will be able to comprehend and give the translation of those sentences that contain animal metaphors. It is also important for those who have willingness in understanding the cultures of two different societies as far as animals are concerned. Kurdish students face some problems and difficulties in learning metaphors especially animal metaphors. So, this research could be of a great help for this purpose. The study makes a comparison between English and Kurdish languages as concerned with animal metaphors. Examples from both languages are given to reach the aim .The conclusion of the research shows that there is cultural correspondence between the two languages concerning some animals despite some differences .At the end ,the researcher shows a list of references that are benefited in writing this research.
المراجع
Bartsch,R.(2003).Generating Polysemy:Metaphor and Metonymy .Research Gate .Discover the world's research
Deignan,A.(2005). Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics. John Benjamins publishing company
Deignan,A.(2005). The Grammar of Linguistic Metaphors.Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy 106-122
Dwyer,Peter D.(1979).Animal Metaphors :An Evolutionary Model.Mankind 12(1): 13-27
Fernandez.J(1972).The Development of Metaphoric Understanding. Implication of the theory of Creativity.Creativity Research Journal.VOL 10, 1997 issue 4
Fraser,B. (2009)."Idioms within Transformational Grammar "Foundations of Language. Academia. Jstor
Ghazala,H.(2012)The cognitive Stylistic Translator.AWEJ for translation and literary studies.Vol2, No1.Umm Al-Qura university
Horrie,C. & Chippindale (2003). What is Islam. Virgin Books. ebook
Kovesces,Z.(2010)" Metaphor and Culture"Acta Universitatis Sapientiae philological 197-220
Kovesces,Z.(2015) .Where Metaphors Come From. Reconsidering Context in Metaphor. Oxford:Oxford University press
Leeezenberg,M(2001).Contexts of Metaphor. Elsevier Language Arts and Disciplines
Lopez,R.(2009)."Of women ,Bitches,Chicken,and Vixens:Animal Metaphors for women in English and Spanish".Culture Lenguajey ,Representacion/culture Language Representation VII 2009 77-100
Liu, J.(2013).Theory and Practice in Language Studies," A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Animal Proverbs. " Academy publisher in Finland.
Nadezda,S(2013).Animal Metaphors and Semantic Derogation;Do women think differently from men? University of Belgrade Serbia faculty of economics .Kamenicka
Ortony, A.(1993).Metaphor and Thought. Cambridge University press:Northwestern university, Illinois
Renton,N.E.(1990).Metaphorically Speaking. A Dictionary of 3800 Picturesque Idiomatic expressions.Goodreads Author
Sarah Garraty(2017) Animal Related Metaphors and Their Meanings.Metaphor Menagerie. McAfee SECURE.
Sharifi and Karimipour(2012)."Thematic Roles and Grammatical Features of Cursing and Blessing Speech Acts in Kurdish Ilami Dialect" psychology. Studies in Literature and Language.Semantic scholar
Stefanowitsch, A.(2013).Words and Their Metaphors :A corpus –Based Approach to Metaphor and Metonymy
Talebinejad,M.Reza and H, Vahid Dastjerdi.(2005)."A cross-cultural Study of Animal Metaphors; When Owls are not Wise" Metaphors and Symbols 133-150
Vossoughi,H.(2000).An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Teaching English as a Foreign Language.Rahnama publications:Iran
Wang,L.(2013).Cultural Functions in the Translation of Metaphor. Journal of language Teaching and Research 4(3).Research Gate
(Kurdish Sources)
Gardy,A.(1982).Rawanbezhy la Adaby Kudida. Baghdad
Omer,B.(2000).Metafor la Rwangay Zmanawany. Slemany
التنزيلات
منشور
كيفية الاقتباس
إصدار
القسم
الرخصة
الحقوق الفكرية (c) 2024 Dilovan Sayfuddin Saady
هذا العمل مرخص بموجب Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licenced
under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY- 4.0)