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Metaphors We Live-By

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Metaphor has been an object of discussion since the 1980s, where serious consideration of it started with the publishing of Lakoff’s and Johnson’s work called Metaphors We Live By. Not since the times of Aristotle have metaphors been discussed in a new light as in this work. The most important idea mentioned by the two authors is that conceptual metaphors are a matter of not only language but of thought as well. In other words, the conceptual metaphor is the framework in which literal instances of metaphorical expressions belong. Conceptual metaphor reveals patterns of human cognition, showing typical culturally determined understandings of a concept, while metaphorical linguistic expressions are ways in which these understandings are expressed
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