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| Other authors / contributors: | Piirainen, Elisabeth.
Falzett, Tiber.
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| ISBN: | 9789027274922
9027274924
9027204055
9789027204059
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| Notes: | 2. The use of metaphor in everyday speech.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | When the last speaker of a language dies, s/he takes to oblivion the memories, associations and the rich imagery this language community has once lived by. The cultural heritage encoded in conventional linguistic metaphors, handed down through generations, will be lost forever. This volume consists of fifteen articles about metaphors in endangered languages, from Peru to Alaska, from India to Ghana. The empirical data demonstrate that the assumptions of contemporary cognitive linguistic theory about "universal" metaphors and the underlying cognitive processes are still far from plausible, since.
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| Other form: | Print version: Idström, Anna. Endangered Metaphors. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©2012 9789027204059
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| Standard no.: | 9786613592859
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