Archive for the ‘Metaphors’ Category

How metaphors work

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

According to Lakoff a metaphor involves the mapping of a source domain, or some of its elements, to a target domain, which often follows the pattern TARGET-DOMAIN IS SOURCE-DOMAIN, or TARGET-DOMAIN AS SOURCE DOMAIN (1993:207). To make it more clear, an exemplary mapping of the metaphor 'love is a journey' ...