Abstract: Metonymy and metaphor have been largely regarded and studied as figures of speech, tropes, whose main function is linguistic ornamentation, that is, a deliberate linguistic strategy. In this paper, I argue that metonymy and metaphor are ordinary, everyday expressions of thought. The study shows that there is explicit interplay of the mind, language and experience among Dholuo speakers. In other words, they are not just used to enrich spoken or written language.
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