Language Endangerment: Disappearing metaphors and shifting conceptualizations
Edited by Elisabeth Piirainen and Ari Sherris
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 7] 2015. vi, 208 pp.
Elisabeth Piirainen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elisabeth Piirainen plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Language documentation | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Endangered Metaphors
Edited by Anna Idström and Elisabeth Piirainen
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 2] 2012. vi, 376 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language
2015 1. Introduction Language Endangerment: Disappearing metaphors and shifting conceptualizations, Piirainen, Elisabeth and Ari Sherris (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2012 The wolf — an evil and ever-hungry beast or a nasty thief? Conventional Inari Saami metaphors and widespread idioms in contrast Metaphor and the Social World 2:1, pp. 87–113 | Article
This article aims to shed light on the impact of an extended social context on the motivation for the figurative content of conventional metaphors. The article therefore compares conventional linguistic metaphors found in Inari Saami with conventional linguistic metaphors that are widespread among… read more
2012 Endangered metaphors: Introduction Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 15–20 | Article
2012 Metaphors of an endangered Low Saxon basis dialect – exemplified by idioms of STUPIDITY and DEATH Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 339–358 | Article
This paper examines metaphors that are handed down in idioms of an old Low Saxon basic dialect. About 30 years ago it was still possible to collect a comprehensive inventory of idioms with the help of the last generation of old-established dialect speakers who had knowledge of their native language… read more
2008 13. Figurative phraseology and culture Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective, Granger, Sylviane and Fanny Meunier (eds.), pp. 207–228 | Article
This chapter seeks to outline the main trends in research on cultural aspects of conventional figurative language (phraseology in particular) and to describe the connection between figurative units (such as idioms, proverbs, etc.) and culture as it becomes manifest in phraseological data from… read more
2008 15. Phraseology in a European framework: A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research project on widespread idioms Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective, Granger, Sylviane and Fanny Meunier (eds.), pp. 243–258 | Article
Widespread idioms (WIs) are idioms that have the same lexical structure (or at least very similar structures) and the same figurative core meaning in various languages, including genetically unrelated and geographically distant languages. The project Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond to be… read more