Conceptualizing the Heart in YorÃ¹bÃ¡ Cultural Contexts

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Abstract

The paperâs attention is devoted to the conceptual metaphors constructed with YorÃ¹bÃ¡ linguistic structures, their contextual motivations and their cultural underpinning. Its data were derived from 160 retrieved structured written interviews on lexical representations of the heart in YorÃ¹bÃ¡ which were complemented with the current authorâs native intuition, insights from short oral interviews with 20 competent native speakers of YorÃ¹bÃ¡ and inputs from two experts in the YorÃ¹bÃ¡ language and culture. Analysis reveals three broad conceptual metaphors: the heart as a bio-medical object, the heart as the recipient and reactive internal organ and the heart as a seat of behavioural conduct and cultural outlook. The metaphorisations indexicate the heart in YorÃ¹bÃ¡ as not only a centre for the assembly of all human emotions as most cultures demonstrate but also an active player in the coordination of the relationship between human emotions, individual preferences and culture-entrenched behaviour/character construction.

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Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies

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