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Publication details [#41747]
Franklin, Karl J. 2003. Some Kewa Metaphors: Body Parts as Automobile Parts. SIL Electronic Working Papers 5.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
SIL International
Annotation
This paper shows the creativeness of the Kewa people of Papua New Guinea, who saw their first vehicle in 1960, in employing metaphors for vehicle parts that draw upon body part names.