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... Metaphors We Live By ( 1980 ) . They described the Conduit Metaphor as a complex metaphor that " is so much the conventional way of thinking about language that it is sometimes hard to imagine that it might not fit reality " ( 11 ) ...
... Metaphors We Live By ( 1980 ) . They described the Conduit Metaphor as a complex metaphor that " is so much the conventional way of thinking about language that it is sometimes hard to imagine that it might not fit reality " ( 11 ) ...
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... metaphors are the verbal expressions of what George Lakoff ( 1987 , 282-83 ) described as the " image schemas " that structure conceptual frameworks . In chapter 2 , I showed how the two complex metaphors , LANGUAGE IS A CONTAINER and ...
... metaphors are the verbal expressions of what George Lakoff ( 1987 , 282-83 ) described as the " image schemas " that structure conceptual frameworks . In chapter 2 , I showed how the two complex metaphors , LANGUAGE IS A CONTAINER and ...
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... metaphors structure the way we think and talk about our behaviors and actions . In English , we describe feeling good as " up " and feeling bad as " down " ; many sports provide conceptual metaphors used to describe political events ...
... metaphors structure the way we think and talk about our behaviors and actions . In English , we describe feeling good as " up " and feeling bad as " down " ; many sports provide conceptual metaphors used to describe political events ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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