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Kleef, Sjaak van and Jacqueline van Kleef. 2012. The use of a conceptual metaphor in the Siroi language of Papua New Guinea. Narrative is climbing a mountain. In Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen, eds. Endangered Metaphors. (Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 2). John Benjamins. pp. 161–184.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins

Annotation

Wells’ Grammar of the Siroi language of Papua New Guinea (1979) raised several questions about the language which could not be answered at the time. This article shows how perhaps the only way these questions can be adequately answered is by recognizing the fact that speakers of the Siroi language use an extended conceptual metaphor in narrative discourse, i.e. narrative is climbing a mountain.