Call for papers: Endangered Metaphors Volume II

[idstrom at MAPPI.HELSINKI.FI]

Call for papers: Endangered Metaphors Volume II
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Metaphors in endangered languages became a focus of increasing  
international academic attention since John Benjamins published the  
volume “Endangered Metaphors” (eds. Anna Idström & Elisabeth  
Piirainen, in co-operation with Tiber Falzett) in March 2012.  
[http://benjamins.com/catalog/clscc.2]. This volume consists of 15  
articles on endangered languages spoken in Papua New Guinea, India,  
Peru, Alaska, Ghana, Finland, etc. These articles provide priceless  
original data and a wealth of information about linguistic and  
conceptual metaphors which are in danger of vanishing without a trace  
if languages die or significantly change under pressure of more  
powerful majority languages.

Now it is time to continue work. Therefore we call for papers to another book:

“Endangered Metaphors Volume II – Vanishing Images, Changing  
Conceptualizations”.

We hope to find authors who have competence in preparing an article  
about an endangered language, preferably an indigenous language spoken  
outside of Europe. The book will concentrate on two themes: the rich  
imagery manifested in idioms (we hope to receive papers on indigenous  
languages whose idioms are not yet documented comprehensively to  
promote their documentation), and conceptual differences between a  
minority language and a majority language. Concerning the latter topic  
we hope to receive papers which compare conceptual metaphors of an  
endangered language with those of the language that threatens its  
existence.

If you are interested in contributing to the volume, please send an  
abstract of your paper to Dr. Anna Idström, anna.e.idstrom AT  
helsinki.fi, by the end of November 2012.

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