Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Prologue 1
4. Endangered metaphors 15
5. “Our language is very literal” 21
6. “My heart falls out” 77
7. Walking like a porcupine, talking like a raven 103
8. Are Nahuatl riddles endangered conceptualizations? 123
9. Bodily-based conceptual metaphors in Ashéninka Perené myths and folk stories 145
10. The use of a conceptual metaphor in the Siroi language of Papua New Guinea 161
11. Kewa figures of speech 185
12. Metaphors in Dimasa and Rabha – A comparative study 205
13. Numbers that Chumburung people count on 221
14. The importance of unveiling conceptual metaphors in a minority language 253
15. Antlers as a metaphor of pride 275
16. Metaphors of the Finnish Roma in Finnish and Romani 293
17. “Bhio’ tu dìreach ga ithe, bha e cho math = You would just eat it, it was so good” 315
18. Metaphors of an endangered Low Saxon basis dialect – exemplified by idioms of STUPIDITY and DEATH 339
19. Index of conceptual metaphors/metonymies 359
20. Name index 361
21. Subject index 365