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Metaphors We Live By¶

Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press.

Type: Book
Intellectual base: Review or monograph
Year: 1980
Link: https://archive.org/details/metaphorsweliveb0000lako
Cited from: art_aesthetics, cognitive_science, communication_media_studies, futurism_foresight, linguistics_semiotics, literature_literary_theory

Cited by¶

14 citations across 14 artifacts.

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Primes¶

Analogy
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Arbitrariness of Symbolic Conventions
- Modern solution: symbols are arbitrary at the formal level (any form can be assigned), but grounding in embodied experience and community practice provides the semantic content that arbitrariness permits
  This sourceArgues metaphor is conceptual, pervasive in thought and action, and grounded in embodied experience — central to cognitive semantics and to how abstract concepts are structured.
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)
- The deepest layer consists of cultural narratives, archetypal stories, and metaphorical patterns that shape human meaning-making across generations, drawing on Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) demonstration that conceptual metaphors structure reasoning at a pre-reflective level.
  This sourceArgues that conceptual metaphor structures thought and reasoning at a largely subconscious, pre-reflective level, not merely language; supports CLA's myth/metaphor layer.
Conceptual Blending
- This sourceFounds conceptual-metaphor theory; metaphor as a mechanism of mind grounded in embodied experience. Tier C (bibliography only; tagged CROSS-DP-22 in source). Link is the archive.org copy.
Iconicity
- Lakoff & Johnson (1980)
Linguistic Universals
- Cognitive linguistics and embodiment: Lakoff & Johnson 1980 and subsequent work propose that universals emerge from embodied experience: spatial orientations (UP-DOWN, FRONT-BACK) are universal because human bodies are spatially oriented; containment metaphors are universal because humans interact with containers.
  This sourceLakoff-Johnson Metaphors We Live By embodied cognition spatial metaphors universals.
Metaphor
- Lakoff-Johnson's framework
Metaphor (Visual/Artistic)
- The cross-domain principle is that visual perception can enact the same conceptual mapping and meaning-production that linguistic metaphor enacts
Metonymy
- Rhetoric and literature. "Lend me your ears" (ears for attention); journalistic conventions in which a building or capital stands for an institution or government.
  This sourceChapter 8 ("Metonymy") treats metonymy as substitution by contiguity/association (e.g., "the White House," the part-for-whole "ham sandwich" cases) distinct from metaphorical mapping.
Translation and Conceptual Bridging
- Metaphors are intentionally asymmetric and often approximate, as Lakoff and Johnson (1980) argue in their treatment of conceptual metaphor; they highlight selected similarities while backgrounding differences.

Domain-specific¶

Semantic Narrowing and Widening
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Semantic Shift
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Simile
- Lakoff & Johnson Metaphors We Live By 1980 foundational; also relevant to metaphor and conceptual mapping (CROSS-DP-21/22/23).

Mechanisms¶

Simile Scaffold Prompt
- The scaffold surfaces that battlefield would prime a war footing, while marketplace transfers the crowding-and-differentiation feature with the least misleading entailment.
  This sourceThe scaffold's whole reason to weigh alternatives is that the choice of source is never neutral; it shapes what the audience will infer next.

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