I’m working through Metaphors We Live By, an exploration of the role of metaphor in human cognition and language. The central theme of the book is: [..] human thought processes are largely metaphorical. [..] Metaphors as linguistic expressions are possible precisely because there are metaphors in a person’s conceptual system. They provide examples of conceptual metaphors which ground our experience– ARGUMENT IS WAR, HAPPY IS UP, THEORIES ARE BUILDINGS– and examples from everyday langu...
