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Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Jacob Mey – A Festschrift Edited by Bruce Fraser and Ken Turner © 2009 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. All rights reserved. 22 FOOD FOR THOUGHT: CONDUIT VERSUS FOOD METAPHORS FOR COMMUNICATION Masako K. Hiraga 1. INTRODUCTION Reddy (1979) claims that
, her hands (probably clutching a prayer book or a bible) were never fi nished: maybe Pieter didn’t want to emphasize an aspect of his family life that may have troubled him quite a lot while living at home. Perhaps, too, his moving to Paris was an effort to escape from the stifl ing atmosphere of
doing fieldwork have been facing. As a matter of fact, it’s also something that has been motivating a whole new generation of students to go into linguistics and learn the trade of documenting and describing endangered languages and going out and producing a record that might be of use for the study
be. Secondly, Goffman's metaphor of everyday life as the staging of a play - a metaphor dating back to baroque writers, Shakespeare and even earlier to the medieval and classical traditions - would seem to have been interpreted too literally. Indeed, the psychological aspects of the interaction have
attachment it is also worth mentioning (for a review, cf. Ammaniti and Stem, 1996). Prototypical expectations are anticipatory strategies derived from 'working models' (cf. Bowlby, 1973) based on interactional experiences and instances of failed relational attunement. From the very first stages in the life
to the event described in the subordinate clause. Consequently, the event in the subordinate clause is "taken for granted" to some degree, as it is capable of serving as an anchor for other events (e.g., Talmy, 2000). This observation motivates a pragmatic analysis of these connectives, addressing
ideas by connecting the possibility of assistance after death with the merits acquired before dying. Whether the care given to a deceased by his relatives will be useful or not, depends on the way in which the deceased lived his earthly life. Assistance may be useful only for the dead who deserve this
is speaking in defence of her son and their way of living : This is a boy who studies the lives of animals, the eating and sleeping habits of animals, animals in their burrows and caves . What is it called , lairs? He is advanced, your honor. I have said from early childhood he liked histories and
. In addition, in section 16.19–17.21, he discusses a contemporary exception: the care of the martyrs for the living. Augustine is convinced that in exceptional cases the martyrs are given divine permission to communicate with the living. He offers an example derived from his addressee’s own experience
Walter Nash organs of generation and the rudiments of political feeling. They have a quarrel with life, but their quarrelsomeness is diffuse and curiously confined. They rarely branch out, or vary their themes. One never meets, for example, an injunction to "Kick the Lord Chancellor" , or the allegation