Conceptual metaphor
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Conceptual metaphor
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In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another. An example of this is the understanding of quantity in terms of directionality or the understanding of time in terms of money. A conceptual domain can be any mental organization of human experience. The regularity with which different languages employ the same metaphors, often perceptually based, has led to the hypothesis that the mapping betwe
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In cognitive linguistics, relating conceptual domains
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2024-02-28T21:01:05Z
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