ANALYSIS OF CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR IN THE SESOTHO CATHOLIC CHURCH HYMNBOOK, LIFELA TSA BAKRISTE: DENOTING THE METAPHORS OF CONNOTATIVE NAMES
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This article is an investigation of the connotative meaning of the names used in the selected Catholic hymns. The meaning of names is analysed within the theoretical framework of conceptual metaphor developed by Lakoff and Johnson (2000) in their seminal work, Metaphors we live by and thereafter modified into the cognitive theory of metaphor. The study aims to demonstrate that for religious relevance and indigenisation, Catholicism adapted in Lifela tsa Bakriste particular Sesotho traditional aspects in order to express the nature and essence of God, Jesus Christ, the Church and other aspects to Basotho. The article concludes that Lifela tsa Bakriste collected by Skhakhane (1985) is an acculturation of Catholicism and traditional Sesotho poetry.
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