Meaning in Metaphors Used in Nollywood Films: A Lexical Concept Integration

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dc.contributor.authorSobola, Eniayo
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-01T14:34:45Z
dc.date.available2020-05-01T14:34:45Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines contributions of the semantic potential of lexical items in the metaphorical expressions used in Nollywood films towards realisation of the intended meaning. Metaphor can be described as a semantic change based on a similarity in form or function between one linguistic concept and another. The data were extracted from the Nollywood films uploaded on internet via YouTube, and they are analysed using the lexical concept integration in Vyvyan Evans’ theory of Lexical Concept and Cognitive Model in order to match the semantic potential of the lexical items in the metaphors used in the films. The study reveals that only the open-class lexical concepts in the metaphors have semantic potential to undergo interpretation in a lexical conceptual unit; each open-class lexical concept in the metaphors has a cognitive model profile which contains cognitive models—layers of meaning—to which it facilitates access; each cognitive model in the cognitive model profile of the open-class lexical item is an interpretation, both socio-cultural and linguistic; matching explores interpretation of the two interpretations that connect among the possible interpretations to arrive at the intended meaning of the metaphors with socio-cultural and linguistic import as used in Nollywood films.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2508-5344
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/8281
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherLanguage Research Institute, Sejong Universityen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Universal Language;20.1.99
dc.subjectmetaphor, meaning, Nollywood, Nigerian film, lexical concepten_US
dc.subjectinterpretationen_US
dc.titleMeaning in Metaphors Used in Nollywood Films: A Lexical Concept Integrationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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