Language Endangerment
Disappearing metaphors and shifting conceptualizations
Editors
Languages and language varieties around the globe have been diminishing at an astonishing rate. Despite great efforts at language documentation, scholarship on metaphors and figurative units – often particularly fragile parts of language – has been largely neglected until recently. This book, like its predecessor Endangered Metaphors (CLSCC 2, 2012), focuses on disappearing metaphors and idioms from languages of diverse continents. Moreover, the book analyzes work from online social interaction, discusses topics such as language maintenance, educational practice and revitalization, as well as future directions for endangered metaphor studies. The book is highly innovative and produces new findings for linguistics and cultural studies: the more languages are examined, especially minority varieties distant from western languages, the more questionable becomes “universality” in the field of metaphor, with unique linguistic data across chapters, evidencing the non-universality of conceptual metaphors and calling for a revision of existing metaphor theories. The book will be of special interest to: linguistics (metaphor and phraseology research, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology), public policy, sociology; community activists and educators of language maintenance and revitalization.
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 7] 2015. vi, 208 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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1. IntroductionElisabeth Piirainen and Ari Sherris | pp. 1–14
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2. Metaphors we die by: change and vitality in MaoriJeanette King | pp. 15–36
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3. Papua New Guinean sweet talk: Metaphors from the domain of tastePhilip King | pp. 37–64
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4. Towards a taxonomy of metaphors of a curtailed language: the case of WarayJohn Ivan V. Palagar | pp. 65–90
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5. Hot eyes, white stomach: emotions and character qualities in Safaliba metaphorPaul Schaefer | pp. 91–110
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6. Literacy and language instruction: Flathead Salish metaphor and a task-based pedagogy for its revitalizationAri Sherris, Tachini Pete and Erin Haynes | pp. 111–136
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7. Idioms and proverbs in Bete language and culture: a metaphorical analysis of their aetiology, meaning and usageJean-Philippe Zouogbo | pp. 137–154
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8. Receding idioms in West Danish (Jutlandic)Torben Arboe | pp. 155–174
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9. A nation without a language is a nation without heart: On vanishing Tatar idiomsGuzel Gizatova | pp. 175–200
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Index of conceptual metaphors/metonymies | p. 201
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Subject index | pp. 203–208
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFB: Sociolinguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General