Endangered Metaphors - Idström, Anna (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012)
2. The use of metaphor in everyday speech
Endangered Metaphors; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Prologue; 1. Background to metaphor studies; 2. How to describe metaphors; 3. Metaphors and language endangerment; 4. Arguments for linguistic diversity; 5. Documentation of metaphor; 6. The work metaphors do; 7. How to identify metaphors; 8. Conclusions; References; Endangered metaphors; References:; "Our language is very literal"; 1. Introduction; 2. Conceptual and typological patterns of lexicalization; 2.1 Metaphor; 2.2 Metonymy; 2.3 Some proposals about lexicalization tendencies
3. A semi-structured inventory of metaphors and metonymies in Dene Suliné3.1 Naming others and describing the human condition; 3.2 Body parts, functions, and dysfunctions; 3.3 Fauna and their feathers, fur, fins, and feelers; 3.4 Places and spaces; 3.5 Terms of acculturation; 3.6 The temporal landscape and time expressions; 3.7 Miscellaneous states and processes; 4. Some general observations about Athapaskan metaphor and metonymy; 4.1 Patterns in the Dene Suliné data; 4.2 Related tendencies across the Dene world; 5. Discussion; 5.1 Exoterogeny and esoterogeny
5.2 Idiomaticity and analyzability5.3 Lexicalization and revitalization; Acknowledgements; References; "My heart falls out"; 1. Introduction; 2. Beaver language and culture; 3. Culture, embodiment, and conceptual metaphors; 3.1 Embodiment; 3.2 Cultural models; 3.3 Conceptual metaphors and metonymies; 4. Emotions and body parts; 4.1 Basic emotions: Linguistic and cognitive evidence; 4.2 Beaver "heart" idioms denoting emotions and personality traits; 5. Linguistic patterns of body part expressions; 6. Conclusion and discussion; References; Walking like a porcupine, talking like a raven
1. Introduction2. Background; 2.1 Linguistic, geographical and cultural background; data; 2.2 Data, definitions, methodology; 2.3 Formal observations; 3. Cultural grounding; 3.1 Type I expressions: Observation; 3.2 Type II idioms: Grounded in mythology; 3.3 Summary; 4. Discussion; 4.1 Idiomaticity and figurativeness; 4.2 Metaphor, metonymy and polysemy; 4.3 Beyond Upper Tanana: Animal idioms in other Alaskan Athabascan languages; 4.4 Use of animal idioms; 5. Conclusion; References; Are Nahuatl riddles endangered conceptualizations?; 1. Introduction; 2. Zazanilli, Sa:sa:ne:hli, Sa:sa:ni:hli