Metaphorical Thinking – It’s Not just Something Your 10th Grade English Teacher Makes You Learn
I guess that’s a good thing, but honestly, my 10th grade English teacher didn’t really help me “get” metaphor that well. But she sure did try!
h/t Gideon Rosenblatt
Originally shared by Robert Best
Mapping Metaphor
“14,000 metaphorical connections sourced from 4m pieces of lexical data, some of which date back to 700AD.”
“This helps us to see how our language shapes our understanding – the connections we make between different areas of meaning in English show, to some extent, how we mentally structure our world”
“metaphorical thinking underlies the way we make sense of the world conceptually”