Endangered Metaphors
When the last speaker of a language dies, s/he takes to oblivion the memories, associations and the rich imagery this language community has once lived by. The cultural heritage encoded in conventional linguistic metaphors, handed down through generations, will be lost forever. This volume consists of fifteen articles about metaphors in endangered languages, from Peru to Alaska, from India to Ghana. The empirical data demonstrate that the assumptions of contemporary cognitive linguistic theory …
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Summary
When the last speaker of a language dies, s/he takes to oblivion the memories, associations and the rich imagery this language community has once lived by. The cultural heritage encoded in conventional linguistic metaphors, handed down through generations, will be lost forever. This volume consists of fifteen articles about metaphors in endangered languages, from Peru to Alaska, from India to Ghana. The empirical data demonstrate that the assumptions of contemporary cognitive linguistic theory about "universal" metaphors and the underlying cognitive processes are still far from plausible, since.
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- Publication Date:2012.
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- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam/Philadelphia
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
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2. The use of metaphor in everyday speech.
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- Description:1 online resource (382 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027274922, 9027274924, 9027204055, 9789027204059
- oclc:ocn779828974
- LC Classification:P301.5.M48
- Dewey Decimal:808.032
Table of Contents
Endangered Metaphors; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Prologue; 1. Background to metaphor studies; 2. How to describe metaphors; 3. Metaphors and language endangerment; 4. Arguments for linguistic diversity; 5. Documentation of metaphor; 6. The work metaphors do; 7. How to identify metaphors; 8. Conclusions; References; Endangered metaphors; References:; "Our language is very literal"; 1. Introduction; 2. Conceptual and typological patterns of lexicalization; 2.1 Metaphor; 2.2 Metonymy; 2.3 Some proposals about lexicalization tendencies.
3. A semi-structured inventory of metaphors and metonymies in Dene Suliné3.1 Naming others and describing the human condition; 3.2 Body parts, functions, and dysfunctions; 3.3 Fauna and their feathers, fur, fins, and feelers; 3.4 Places and spaces; 3.5 Terms of acculturation; 3.6 The temporal landscape and time expressions; 3.7 Miscellaneous states and processes; 4. Some general observations about Athapaskan metaphor and metonymy; 4.1 Patterns in the Dene Suliné data; 4.2 Related tendencies across the Dene world; 5. Discussion; 5.1 Exoterogeny and esoterogeny.
5.2 Idiomaticity and analyzability5.3 Lexicalization and revi…
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