nam a22 c 4500 clscc.2/558009597 nljbp 250625034712.6 cr ||||||||||| 131216s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2011049143 9789027274922 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P301.5.M48 808.032 23 CFG bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Endangered Metaphors Edited by Anna Idström and Elisabeth Piirainen Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (vi, 376 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 1879-8047 2 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Endangered metaphors / Anna Idström and Elisabeth Piirainen -- “Our language is very literal” / Sally Rice -- “My heart falls out” / Carolina Pasamonik -- Walking like a porcupine, talking like a raven / Olga Lovick -- Are Nahuatl riddles endangered conceptualizations? / Mercedes Montes de Oca Vega -- Bodily-based conceptual metaphors in Ashéninka Perené myths and folk stories / Elena Mihas -- The use of a conceptual metaphor in the Siroi language of Papua New Guinea / Sjaak van Kleef and Jacqueline van Kleef -- Kewa figures of speech / 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 metaphors in a minority language / Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano -- Antlers as a metaphor of pride / Anna Idström -- Metaphors of the Finnish Roma in Finnish and Romani / Kimmo Granqvist -- “Bhio’ tu dìreach ga ithe, bha e cho math = You would just eat it, it was so good” / Tiber F.M. Falzett -- Metaphors of an endangered Low Saxon basis dialect – exemplified by idioms of STUPIDITY and DEATH / Elisabeth Piirainen 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 culture plays an important role in the formation of metaphors. Moreover, that theory has been based on knowledge of metaphors in some standard languages. Indigenous and other minority languages, especially mainly orally used ones, have been disregarded completely. Besides researchers and students in linguistics, especially in metaphor and figurative language theory, this compilation provides food for thought for scholars in large fields of cultural studies, ranging from anthropology and ethnology to folkloristics and philosophy. Provided by publisher. Anthropological Linguistics Cognition and language Idström, Anna editor Piirainen, Elisabeth editor Falzett, Tiber F.M. author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027204059 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.2 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027274922