Metaphors We Learn to Program By.
I’m working through Metaphors We Live By, an exploration of the role of metaphor in human cognition and language. The central theme of the book is:
[…] human thought processes are largely metaphorical. […] Metaphors as linguistic expressions are possible precisely because there are metaphors in a person’s conceptual system.
They provide examples of conceptual metaphors which ground our experience– ARGUMENT IS WAR, HAPPY IS UP, THEORIES ARE BUILDINGS– and examples from everyday language to support the theory.
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