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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- 1. Introduction 1
- 2. Metaphors we die by 15
- 3. Papua New Guinean sweet talk 37
- 4. Towards a taxonomy of metaphors of a curtailed language 65
- 5. Hot eyes, white stomach 91
- 6. Literacy and language instruction 111
- 7. Idioms and proverbs in Bete language and culture 137
- 8. Receding idioms in West Danish (Jutlandic) 155
- 9. A nation without a language is a nation without heart 175
- Index of conceptual metaphors/metonymies 201
- Subject index 203
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- 1. Introduction 1
- 2. Metaphors we die by 15
- 3. Papua New Guinean sweet talk 37
- 4. Towards a taxonomy of metaphors of a curtailed language 65
- 5. Hot eyes, white stomach 91
- 6. Literacy and language instruction 111
- 7. Idioms and proverbs in Bete language and culture 137
- 8. Receding idioms in West Danish (Jutlandic) 155
- 9. A nation without a language is a nation without heart 175
- Index of conceptual metaphors/metonymies 201
- Subject index 203