Proverbs are timeless human wisdom in the form of concise figurative speech.They reflect the conceptual experience of the speakers,particularly the elders in speech communities.This study aims at presenting a comparat...Proverbs are timeless human wisdom in the form of concise figurative speech.They reflect the conceptual experience of the speakers,particularly the elders in speech communities.This study aims at presenting a comparative study between Amharic and Afaan Oromoo proverbs from the standpoint of meta-communication perspective.Meta-communication is conceptualized as communicating about communication.Communication is believed to have many things in common with culture in that it shapes and dictates the communication behavior of a given society.In verbal communication,the use of proverbs is quite often,explicitly to comment on communication behavior.Despite the multifaceted functions of proverbs in several disciplines,the focuses of this study are proverbs as sources of communication that are relevant in linguistics and anthropology.In so doing,sample proverbs have been purposively selected based on semantic criteria and analyzed by using psycho-analysis method.In the analysis of the proverbs,we built a cognitive model for their semantic relationships.This is because the proverbs have relatively stable,conventionalized and contextual meaning of form as continuum,residing in their common conceptual base.Above of all,they are metaphor-dependent as a common on conceptual base.Hence,there are a number of proverbs in Amharic and Afaan Oromoo as well that comment on importance of communication,communication behavior or processes,among others.In both ethno-linguistic groups,thus,employing such proverbs to comment on communication is quite common which tend to show the communication behavior of each group.展开更多
The main objective of this study is to give descriptions of formal and functional aspects of causative constructions in Afaan Oromoo.To achieve the objective,written texts,native speaker informants and introspections ...The main objective of this study is to give descriptions of formal and functional aspects of causative constructions in Afaan Oromoo.To achieve the objective,written texts,native speaker informants and introspections are predominantly used as sources of data.The findings reveal that the three structural aspects of causatives-morphological,lexical and syntactic-are used in the language.Morphological causatives are highly productive,and affixes with-s and-i in several combinations as well as-eess are employed for such purposes.Causative Morphemes are detected to derive causatives of basic verb stems of different semantic categories and to involve causations in word-class changing.There are also simple and complex causations in which there are several causatives suffixes,causers and micro-events indicated morphologically and syntactically.Semantically,direct,indirect,and assistive/cooperative causatives are identified.Pseudo-causatives are uncovered as peculiar futures of the language too.There are,even,structures with explicit causative affixes which are called subjectless causatives,but they do not show any causal relations between the participants in the structure.展开更多
文摘Proverbs are timeless human wisdom in the form of concise figurative speech.They reflect the conceptual experience of the speakers,particularly the elders in speech communities.This study aims at presenting a comparative study between Amharic and Afaan Oromoo proverbs from the standpoint of meta-communication perspective.Meta-communication is conceptualized as communicating about communication.Communication is believed to have many things in common with culture in that it shapes and dictates the communication behavior of a given society.In verbal communication,the use of proverbs is quite often,explicitly to comment on communication behavior.Despite the multifaceted functions of proverbs in several disciplines,the focuses of this study are proverbs as sources of communication that are relevant in linguistics and anthropology.In so doing,sample proverbs have been purposively selected based on semantic criteria and analyzed by using psycho-analysis method.In the analysis of the proverbs,we built a cognitive model for their semantic relationships.This is because the proverbs have relatively stable,conventionalized and contextual meaning of form as continuum,residing in their common conceptual base.Above of all,they are metaphor-dependent as a common on conceptual base.Hence,there are a number of proverbs in Amharic and Afaan Oromoo as well that comment on importance of communication,communication behavior or processes,among others.In both ethno-linguistic groups,thus,employing such proverbs to comment on communication is quite common which tend to show the communication behavior of each group.
文摘The main objective of this study is to give descriptions of formal and functional aspects of causative constructions in Afaan Oromoo.To achieve the objective,written texts,native speaker informants and introspections are predominantly used as sources of data.The findings reveal that the three structural aspects of causatives-morphological,lexical and syntactic-are used in the language.Morphological causatives are highly productive,and affixes with-s and-i in several combinations as well as-eess are employed for such purposes.Causative Morphemes are detected to derive causatives of basic verb stems of different semantic categories and to involve causations in word-class changing.There are also simple and complex causations in which there are several causatives suffixes,causers and micro-events indicated morphologically and syntactically.Semantically,direct,indirect,and assistive/cooperative causatives are identified.Pseudo-causatives are uncovered as peculiar futures of the language too.There are,even,structures with explicit causative affixes which are called subjectless causatives,but they do not show any causal relations between the participants in the structure.
