ABSTRACT

This article analyses metaphors in traditional Bemba narratives and demonstrates their thematic relevance in African literature classrooms today. Based on Sharifian's theory of cultural conceptualisations and Lakoff and Johnson's view of metaphor as a conceptual phenomenon, the article explores African cultural views relating to land, food and ubuntu. The ongoing contestation over land is revealed in the conceptual chasm between the Western “THE LAND IS MINE” versus the embodiment implicit in the indigenous metaphor, “THE LAND IS ME” and in eating and enrichment conceptualisations in African English. The traditional African worldview is founded on the kinship-in-community model, encapsulated in the term ubuntu. The article promotes an African cultural perspective by means of textual analysis of Zambian narratives, sourced by Mwelwa. In the process of the analysis, the underpinning cultural conceptualisations are interrogated with the aim of countering the continued hegemony of Western cultural values in African literature classrooms.

摘要

本文分析了传统的本巴叙事中的隐喻，并证明了它们在当今非洲文学课堂中的主题意义。本文基于Sharifian的文化概念化理论以及Lakoff和Johnson的隐喻观点作为一种概念现象，探讨了非洲有关土地，食物和Ubuntu的文化观点。西方国家“ THE LAND IS MINE”与土著比喻“ THE LAND IS ME”以及非洲英语中的饮食和丰富化概念所隐含的具体体现之间，在观念上的分歧揭示了正在进行的土地争夺。传统的非洲世界观是建立在“亲属关系”模型基础上的，该模型封装在“ ubuntu ”一词中。这篇文章通过对姆韦瓦（Mwelwa）的赞比亚叙述进行文本分析，从而提倡非洲文化观。在分析过程中，对基础文化概念化进行了审问，目的是对抗非洲文学教室中西方文化价值观的持续霸权。