Anna Idström

List of John Benjamins publications in which Anna Idström 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.

Articles

Idström, Anna 2012 Antlers as a metaphor of pride: What idioms reveal about the relationship between human and animal in Inari Saami conceptual system Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 275–292 | Article

Cognitive Metaphor Theory involves an assumption that the metaphorical patterns which systematically connect a source domain to a target domain stem from cognitive mapping: understanding and experiencing one thing in terms of another. The Inari Saami material collected from several sources does not… read more

Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen 2012 Endangered metaphors: Introduction Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 15–20 | Article

Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen 2012 The wolf — an evil and ever-hungry beast or a nasty thief? Conventional Inari Saami metaphors and widespread idioms in contrast Metaphor and the Social World 2:1, pp. 87–113 | Article

This article aims to shed light on the impact of an extended social context on the motivation for the figurative content of conventional metaphors. The article therefore compares conventional linguistic metaphors found in Inari Saami with conventional linguistic metaphors that are widespread among… read more