In:Cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English
Anna Finzel
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 17] 2025
► pp. xv–xvi
Published online: 12 September 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.17.lof
https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.17.lof
List of figures
Figure 1.Schema of how interrelated cultural conceptualisations form the conceptual networks that constitute cultural models10
Figure 2.Mentions for woman’s task, normalised per 10,000 words (normalised frequency: Nnorm = Nabs /
corpus size * 10,000)57
Figure 3.Mentions for man’s task, normalised per 10,000 words (normalised frequency: Nnorm = Nabs /
corpus size * 10,000)58
Figure 4.Percentagewise distribution of achievement categories (all = all conceptualisations; WA = woman’s achievement;
MA = man’s achievement)63
Figure 5.Personal achievements for woman’s achievement (WA) and man’s achievement (MA), normalised per 10,000 words
(normalised frequency: Nnorm = Nabs / corpus size * 10,000)64
Figure 6.Familial achievements for woman’s achievement (WA) and man’s achievement (MA), normalised per 10,000 words
(normalised frequency: Nnorm = Nabs / corpus size * 10,000)66
Figure 7.Societal achievements for woman’s achievement (WA) and man’s achievement (MA), normalised per 10,000 words
(normalised frequency: Nnorm = Nabs / corpus size * 10,000)67
Figure 8.Honour killing depicted as ritual in Land Gold Women97
Figure 9.Pictorial instantiations of the female space is inside in Mitr, My Friend98
Figure 10.Multimodal metaphorical expressions pertaining to the female space is inside in Mitr, My
Friend100
Figure 11.Olanna beating her stomach upon not becoming pregnant (Half of a Yellow Sun)107
Figure 12.Conceptual logic of conceptualisations pertaining to hijra122
Figure 13.The Indian cultural model of gender: Network visualisation129
Figure 14.The Nigerian cultural model of gender: Network visualisation139
Figure 15.Connotation of conceptualisations pertaining to homosexuality across the three subcorpora159
Figure 16.Results from the perceived-strength-of-connection task in the online study (1 = no link; 2 = weak link; 3 = medium link;
4 = strong link)175
Figure 17.The Indian cultural model of homosexuality: Network visualisation181
Figure 18.The Nigerian cultural model of homosexuality: Network visualisation188
