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Endangered Metaphors.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Notas: | 2. The use of metaphor in everyday speech. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (382 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027274922 9027274924 9027204055 9789027204059 1280497629 9781280497629 9786613592859 6613592854 |
| ISSN: | 1879-8047 ; |