Methaphors, Source Domains, and Key Words in Tongan Speech about Social Relationships: 'Ofa 'Love' is Giving  

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Bennardo, Giovanni

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 50 no. 2 (2008), page 174-201.
Fulltext: 20638994.pdf (3.11MB)

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In this article metaphors used by Tongans when talking about social relationships are analyzed. A number of types of metaphors are identified and their source domains highlighted. Many of these metaphors involve the concept of ’ofa ‘love’ and related concepts like faka’apa’apa ‘respect’. The metaphor analysis reveals a comprehensive organizational structure for the domain of social relationships—a cultural model. This structure replicates the organization present in other domains of Tongan knowledge, providing further support for the hypothesis that a cultural model of radiality is the basis of the preferred Tongan way of mentally organizing knowledge.

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