Endangered Metaphors
Edited by Anna Idström and Elisabeth Piirainen
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 2] 2012. vi, 376 pp.
Anna Idström
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anna Idström plays a role.
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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language
Articles
2012 Antlers as a metaphor of pride: What idioms reveal about the relationship between human and animal in Inari Saami conceptual system Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 275–292 | Article
Cognitive Metaphor Theory involves an assumption that the metaphorical patterns which systematically connect a source domain to a target domain stem from cognitive mapping: understanding and experiencing one thing in terms of another. The Inari Saami material collected from several sources does not… read more
2012 Endangered metaphors: Introduction Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 15–20 | 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