Index

• Aaja Ramita Chha 39

• Agam Singh Giri27

• allegorical dialogue254

• allegory 256, 264

• Amazonian language 54, 181

• ambivalence 24, 27, 39–40

• America, Latin 50, 54

• Amondawa 182, 186, 188, 190–194, 198

• Anglo-Nepal war of 1814–1625

• animator 161, 164, 166–167, 170, 175

• Arthharuko Pachhilitira 31

• Awetý culture 65–66

• Awetý language64

• barbarism 21, 39

• basic color terms296

• Bengali 25, 32, 35

• Bhutan 26, 32

• Body Ritual among the Nacirema116

• border crossings31

• Burma 32, 34

• Burmese war34

• catachresis 187, 191, 195, 197

• categorization295

• Charles Fillmore114

• Chinese language 167, 275, 298, 311–312

• civil society 26–27

• cognitive basis of narrative229

• cognitive grammar 4, 76, 85, 102, 141–142, 154

• cognitive identification267

• cognitive mapping299

• cognitive motivation305

• cohesion 156, 173

• colonial discourse25

• common ground253

• conceptual base 146, 148

• conceptual blending 115–116, 129, 134, 169
  • theory 111, 113–115

• conceptual integration252

• conceptual metaphor 141, 150–151, 158–159, 162, 174, 181, 184–186, 188–191, 197–198, 203–204, 206–207, 213, 244, 277, 305

• conceptual metonymies 147, 158

• context-dependent254

• conversation frame255

• conversational mind267

• Cora language191

• Coulson 115, 128

• critical cultural awareness 111–113, 126

• cross-linguistic perspective229

• cultural conceptualization 141, 143, 145, 147, 151, 198, 208, 222–223

• cultural dimension237

• cultural identity 24, 39, 183–184

• cultural-linguistic24

• culturally hybrid35

• current discourse space255

• Darjeeling 24, 26–28, 32, 35–36, 38

• decolonial 11, 15, 20

• developmentalist38

• Diaspora 23, 26, 28, 39

• diasporic subjects 24, 32

• discourse character264

• discourse content255

• discourse context 255, 264

• discursive acts 157–158, 174

• effeminacy25

• ELAN188

• embodied identification267

• embodiment311

• emotions 219, 250

• endangered languages 44, 47–51, 59, 105

• enlightenment 10, 15, 20, 32

• enumerated26

• epistemic violence28

• epistemology 8, 10, 12, 14, 17, 20

• ethnicist40

• ethnie 27, 37, 39

• ethnographies 25–26

• ethno-nationalist 24, 36

• eulogy 141–142, 144, 152–153

• Eurocentrism 7–9, 11, 13–15, 20, 153

• event structure metaphor207

• experience as an indigenous63

• expository questions264

• Fauconnier 113, 115, 124–125, 129, 134

• fictive interaction256
  • blend256

• fictive questions265

• field research44

• foreground and background information231

• formulations276

• frame semantics 111, 113–114, 116, 134

• frame-shifting 123, 127–128

• framing 133–135

• funü (“妇女”, wife-female)275

• fuzzy identities26

• ghost195

• gifts69

• Gorkha community26

• Gorkha empire24

• Gorkha subjectivity 24, 27

• global
  • North 45–46, 58
  • South 45–46, 58

• Here-and-Now Space255

• Himalayan Voices 30

• Himalayas25

• Hindi 30, 32–33

• historical memory40

• home-grown28

• homeland 24, 27

• hybrid self40

• iconic 23–24, 30, 75, 87, 91–97, 100, 104–106, 245

• identity 11, 14–15, 21, 24–25, 27, 39, 63, 70–72, 83, 99, 112, 157–158, 161–162, 174, 181–184, 194, 199, 228, 313

• idiom 141–147, 149–151

• illness 216–217, 219

• immaterial heritage44 See ideology

• imputed words259

• in-betweenness32

• Indian freedom27

• indigenous culture 49, 69, 71, 188

• indigenous schooling68

• inner self 157–158, 163, 168–169, 171–172, 176
  • metaphor 158, 162, 174, 176

• interpretive and evaluative aspect239

• intersubjective 99, 103, 160, 252–254, 265–266

• Kamaiurá culture 64, 66

• Kamaiurá language64

• keeping up with the times\ (“与时俱进”) 275–276, 278–280, 286–287, 291

• language documentation 43–44, 51–52 See preservation See revitatlization

• language-specific patterns229

• laws 216, 218

• linguistic relativity295

• linguistic universality296

• lost in translation30

• Malaya 23, 40

• Mandalay34

• martial theories of race25

• Marubo193

• Matis193

• mental simulation249

• mental spaces 115, 129, 132, 135

• metaphor conceptual See ontology

• metaphorical conceptualisation157

• metonymy 141, 147, 151, 168, 172, 176, 185, 187, 295, 305, 309, 311, 313

• minor art29

• minority intellectual36

• mixed viewpoints259

• Mixtec 191–192

• myth 189–190, 197

• narrative
  • mythical 4, 181, 188–189, 196–197

• narrative structure 81, 227

• narrative theory228

• narrator237

• narrator’s empathy237

• nationalist 24, 35–36, 40

• natural semantic metalanguage210

• Nepal 24–26, 32, 34–36, 38
  • Nepaleseness24
  • Nepali 24, 26–40

• nominalization 95, 195

• non-basic color terms295

• non-Indian citizen’32

• nüxing (“女性”, female-sex)275

• objectivity238

• Old English 203–205, 208, 211, 213

• onomastic67

• onstage 144, 146

• ontology 40, 181, 187, 199

• orality267

• Orientalism28

• Peirce 75–76, 86–87, 91

• People’s Daily 5, 276, 278–284, 287–291

• performance 4, 157, 159, 162, 164–165, 168, 170, 173–174, 176
  • role 161, 163, 165, 167, 175

• personal trajectory63

• personification 4, 181–182, 184, 186–198

• perspective taking249

• perspectivism 4, 12–13, 19, 181, 198–199

• porous border34

• postcolonial Indian25

• postmodernity32

• preservation 43, 45, 52, 59

• prompt 116, 148–149

• punishments 216

• reader-response theory31

• real or imagined36

• reception theory31

• reflexivity 20, 34, 57–58

• regional writing36

• repeated words259

• representation 5, 16, 34–35, 67, 75, 77, 89, 91–92, 96–98, 101–106, 163, 168, 173–175, 187, 210, 229–230, 266–267, 295–296, 299, 301, 303–304, 313

• revitalization 43, 46–48, 51–52, 58–59

• rhetorical questions262

• rhetorical strategy265

• scientific community 43–45, 52–53, 56

• scope 147, 148, 149, 152

• self marker161

• self-control 162–164, 167–168, 175

• self-identity 27, 112

• self-involving265

• self-perception 160, 162

• self-persuasion266

• self-reference 160–161, 172

• Shaman 64, 66, 68

• sociolinguists158

• specialized 56, 145, 151, 284
  • genre143

• spheres of ideology 46, 49–51

• split-self255

• stance 38, 46, 49, 58–59, 75, 77, 92, 96, 98–99, 101, 105–106, 253

• subaltern populations34

• subcategories295

• subjecthood26

• symbol 40, 47, 86–87, 91, 96, 103, 105, 289

• synechdochic33

• talk-in-interaction 157, 161, 174

• Tarascan191

• target language31

• tea plantations26

• textile as a Chinese political metaphor144

• the Australian Aboriginal language See Ungarinyin

• think-aloud117

• traditional food69

• transcategorization305

• transnational25

• Turner 113, 115, 124

• unequal exchange 46, 49, 52–53, 58

• underdevelopment37

• UNESCO 50, 254

• Ungarinyin 75–79, 81, 84, 87, 90, 92–94, 96, 98–99

• unsettled identities34

• untranslatability30

• Uru-eu-wau-wau 188

• ventriloquist260

• viewpoint261
  • blending249

• writerly practice29

• writer-reader blend259

• Yiddish36

• Zapotec 191–192

• Zhuangzi 249