![]() ![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. According to Lakoff and Johnson, linguistic expressions such as ‘to demolish a theory’ or ‘the foundation of a theory’ are not isolated expressions but parts of the conceptual metaphor theories are buildings. ![]() These observations gave rise to the theory of conceptual metaphor which moved metaphor out of language into our conceptual organization. Thus, we talk about theories and arguments as if they were buildings: theories can have support and arguments can be demolished. In their book, Lakoff and Johnson amassed an amazing number of examples showing that the way we talk about abstract domains appears to be systematically structured by the way we talk about certain more concrete domains. The cognitive linguistics revolution began in 1980 with the publication of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By. This is exactly what the Metaphor Map is designed to show. What has been missing from this field so far is an overall picture of metaphor within a language. Today many metaphor researchers work in the framework of cognitive linguistics. This theory of conceptual metaphor was popularised by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) in the book Metaphors We Live By and has been hugely influential ever since. ![]()
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