Tiber F.M. Falzett

List of John Benjamins publications in which Tiber F.M. Falzett is involved.

Title

Endangered Metaphors

Edited by Anna Idström and Elisabeth Piirainen

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… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 2] 2012. vi, 376 pp.

Article

Falzett, Tiber F.M. 2012 “Bhio’ tu dìreach ga ithe, bha e cho math = You would just eat it, it was so good”: Music, Metaphor and Food for Thought on Scottish Gaelic Aesthetics Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 315–338 | Article

This paper intends to examine metaphors and other tropes in Scottish Gaelic that are capable of shedding light on local aesthetic attitudes concerning various forms of verbal art and music among Gaelic speakers at the communal level. Special attention will be given to lexemes that are associated… read more