Notions of self in Hausa

Abstract

The chapter deals with the special ways of expressing the notion of the SELF in Hausa that function as linguistic patterns of person. The language data demonstrates how personal identity is constructed as an idea and what consciousness this idea is founded on. There are different attitudes towards studying 'selfhood'; the concept is important within various philosophic debates, but it is also present in other works dealing with the nature of self-consciousness, the nature of bodily awareness or human emotions. In the analysis of Hausa language sources, the bridge between body and self was found in the following terms that function as equivalents of 'person': kai 'head', ido 'eye', fuska 'face', zuciya 'heart', hannu 'hand' and jiki 'body'. The grammatical and stylistic variants differentiate personal coding, but at the same time some patterns become more transparent in coding self reference. Keywords: Hausa; lexical equivalents; linguistic patterns; selfhood

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