Endangered metaphors

by Falzett, Tiber Idström, Anna Piirainen, Elisabeth

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Title Statements

Full title :Endangered metaphors / edited by Anna Idström, Elisabeth Piirainen ; in co-operation with Tiber Falzett.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

Description:vi, 376 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027204059, 9027204055, 9789027274922, 9027274924
oclc:ocn761369229
LC Classification:P301.5.M48
Dewey Decimal:808.032

Prologue / Peter Muhlhausler -- Endangered metaphors: Introduction / Anna Idstrom and Elisabeth Piirainen -- "Our language is very literal": figurative expression in Dene Suline [Athapaskan] / Sally Rice -- "My heart falls out": conceptualizations of body parts and emotion expressions in Beaver Athabascan / Carolina Pasamonik -- Walking like a porcupine, talking like a raven: figurative language in Upper Tanana Athabascan / Olga Lovick -- Are Nahuatl riddles endangered conceptualizations? / Mercedes Montes de Oca Vega -- Bodily-based conceptual metaphors in Asheninka Perene myths and folk stories / Elena Mihas -- The use of a conceptual metaphor in the Siroi language of Papua New Guinea: narrative is climbing a mountain / Sjaak van Kleef and Jacqueline van Kleef -- Kewa figures of speech: understanding the code / Karl J. Franklin -- Metaphors in Dimasa and Rabha: a comparative study / Monali Longmailai and Lakshminath Rabha -- Numbers that Chumburung people count on / Gillian F. Hansford -- The importance of unveiling conceptual methaphors in a minority language: the case of Basque / Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano -- Antlers as a metaphor of pride: what idioms reveal about the relation…