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Metaphors

Index of SIL publications on Metaphors listed by country.

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General works

• ANDERSON, Susan; DAY, Dwight; JORDAN, Paul C.; LOOS, Eugene E.; WINGATE, J. Douglas, editors. 2003. "Metaphors in English."
• BARLOW, Andrew, author. 1994. A metaphorical mapping methodology based upon the experientialist view of metaphor and applied to Koine Greek spatial and temporal metaphors.
• BEEKMAN, John, author. 1969. Metaphor and simile.
• BLACKBURN, Perry L., author. 2007. The code model of communication: a powerful metaphor in linguistic metatheory.  
• KING, Phil, author. 2010. Surrounded by bitterness: image schemas and metaphors for conceptualising distress in classical Hebrew.
• MATSUDA, Lonny, author. 1985. Personification in Paul’s letters.
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 2006. "From simple metaphors to conceptual blending: the mapping of analogical concepts and the praxis of translation."  
• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2000. Review of: Dynamic conceptual semantics: a logico-philosophical investigation into concept formation and understanding, by Renate Bartsch.
• SNYDER, David M., author. 1992. Review of: More than cool reason, a field guide to poetic metaphor, by George Lakoff and Mark Turner.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Ghana

• HANSFORD, Gillian F., author. 2005. "My eyes are red: body metaphor in Chumburung."

Sudan

• BUTH, Randall J., author. 1984. Comments on ‘Son of Man’ relating to NOT 75.

Americas

Colombia

• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 1984. Brief thoughts on ‘the Son of Man’.

Mexico

• CASAD, Eugene H., author. 1989. Review of: The ubiquity of metaphor: metaphor in language and thought, by Wolf Paprotte and Rene Dirven, editors.

Peru

• BENSON, Bruce, author. 2008. "'Sólo' siendo 'cortés'."
• BERGLI, Ågot; COOMBS, Heidi, editors. 2008. Estudios quechuas II.  

Asia

China

• PELKEY, Jamin R., author. 2005. Review of: Predicate compounding in the Yi group: the continuum of grammaticalization, by Matthias Gerner.

Thailand

• UKOSAKUL, Margaret, author. 2000. Don’t "lose your face"!: conceptual metaphors motivating the use of Thai "face".

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 2003. Some Kewa metaphors: body parts as automobile parts.  
• KLEEF, Jacqueline van; KLEEF, Sjaak van, authors. 1988. "The use of metaphors in Siroi."  
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1983. Review of: The semantics of metaphor, by Samuel R. Levin.

Solomon Islands

• BOERGER, Brenda H., author. 2009. Trees of Santa Cruz Island and their metaphors.