Kinship metaphors in Swahili language and culture
Swahili kinship terms are highly polysemous and occur in many figurative meanings out of which some are fully conventionalized in language usage. The article focuses on a specific case of such extensions which metaphorically frames an unrelated person as one’s kin. The usage patterns of this “fictiv...
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| Language: | deu |
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Warsaw University Press
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Studies in African Languages and Cultures |
| Online Access: | https://salc.uw.edu.pl/index.php/SALC/article/view/227 |