Endangered Metaphors
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1. Prologue (by Muhlhausler, Peter); 2. Endangered metaphors: Introduction (by Idstrom, Anna); 3. "Our language is very literal": Figurative expression in Dene Suline [Athapaskan] (by Rice, Sally); 4. "My heart falls out": Conceptualizations of body parts and emotion expressions in Beaver Athabascan (by Pasamonik, Carolina); 5. Walking like a porcupine, talking like a raven: Figurative language in Upper Tanana Athabascan (by Lovick, Olga); 6. Are Nahuatl riddles endangered conceptualizations? (by Vega, Mercedes Montes de Oca); 7. Bodily-based conceptual metaphors in Asheninka Perene myths and folk stories (by Mihas, Elena); 8. The use of a conceptual metaphor in the Siroi language of Papua New Guinea: Narrative is climbing a mountain (by Kleef, Sjaak van); 9. Kewa figures of speech: Understanding the code (by Franklin, Karl J.); 10. Metaphors in Dimasa and Rabha - A comparative study (by Longmailai, Monali); 11. Numbers that Chumburung people count on (by Hansford, Gillian F.); 12. The importance of unveiling conceptual metaphors in a minority language: The case of Basque (by Ibarretxe-Antunano, Iraide); 13. Antlers as a metaphor of pride: What idioms reveal about the relationship between human and animal in Inari Saami conceptual system (by Idstrom, Anna); 14. Metaphors of the Finnish Roma in Finnish and Romani (by Granqvist, Kimmo); 15. "Bhio' tu direach 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 (by Falzett, Tiber F.M.); 16. Metaphors of an endangered Low Saxon basis dialect - exemplified by idioms of STUPIDITY and DEATH (by Piirainen, Elisabeth); 17. Index of conceptual metaphors/metonymies; 18. Name index; 19. Subject index

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