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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

Keywords

conceptualization | discourse analysis | language and culture | metaphor | narrative dialogue

Language as a subject

Siroi

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.