Torben Arboe
List of John Benjamins publications for which Torben Arboe plays a role.
Article
2015. 8. Receding idioms in West Danish (Jutlandic). Language Endangerment: Disappearing metaphors and shifting conceptualizations, Piirainen, Elisabeth and Ari Sherris (eds.), pp. 155–174
The purpose of this chapter is to present and analyze dialectal idioms because they seem to be in retreat. The study employs a theory of conventional figurative units based on the conceptual theory of metaphors. The idioms are discussed in some detail inside a broad range of semantic fields. These… read more | Article