Language endangerment : disappearing metaphors and shifting conceptualizations / edited by Elisabeth Piirainen, Ari Sherris.

Languages and language varieties around the globe have been diminishing at an astonishing rate. Despite great efforts at language documentation, scholarship on metaphors and figurative units--often particularly fragile parts of language--has been largely neglected until recently. This book, like its...

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Other Authors: Piirainen, Elisabeth (Editor), Sherris, Ari (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Series:Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts ; v. 7.
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