Ari Sherris

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ari Sherris is involved.

Title

Language Endangerment: Disappearing metaphors and shifting conceptualizations

Edited by Elisabeth Piirainen and 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… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 7] 2015. vi, 208 pp.

Articles

Piirainen, Elisabeth and Ari Sherris 2015 1. Introduction Language Endangerment: Disappearing metaphors and shifting conceptualizations, Piirainen, Elisabeth and Ari Sherris (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article

Sherris, Ari, Tachini Pete and Erin Haynes 2015 6. Literacy and language instruction: Flathead Salish metaphor and a task-based pedagogy for its revitalization Language Endangerment: Disappearing metaphors and shifting conceptualizations, Piirainen, Elisabeth and Ari Sherris (eds.), pp. 111–136 | Article

Flathead Salish, a critically endangered language spoken by dwindling numbers of first language speakers from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Montana, USA, is the object of collaborative efforts at language revitalization. Often such efforts rely on traditional categories of language… read more