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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Metaphor is a secret life that is lived by all of us. We utter about one metaphor for every ten to twenty-five words, or about six metaphors a minute.
#2 The ubiquity of metaphor is demonstrated by the fact that we constantly resort to it when describing anything abstract, such as ideas, feelings, thoughts, and emotions.
#3 Metaphor is a linguistic hand-me-down, meaning it is passed on from an old word to a new thing. It is present in everything from ordinary conversation to news reports and political speeches.
#4 Metaphor is the process of transferring a concept from one thing to another, and it is essential to all communication. It is impossible to describe emotions, abstract concepts, or anything else without it.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	03 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669399254
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

Metaphor is a secret life that is lived by all of us. We utter about one metaphor for every ten to twenty-five words, or about six metaphors a minute.

#2

The ubiquity of metaphor is demonstrated by the fact that we constantly resort to it when describing anything abstract, such as ideas, feelings, thoughts, and emotions.

#3

Metaphor is a linguistic hand-me-down, meaning it is passed on from an old word to a new thing. It is present in everything from ordinary conversation to news reports and political speeches.

#4

Metaphor is the process of transferring a concept from one thing to another, and it is essential to all communication. It is impossible to describe emotions, abstract concepts, or anything else without it.

#5

The paradox of metaphor is that it tells us so much about a person, place, or thing by telling us what that person, place, or thing is not. Understanding a metaphor is a seemingly random walk through a deep, dark forest of associations.

#6

Metaphor is the mind’s great swerve. Creativity is nothing without that clinamactic swing. The Latin word cogito is derived from the prefix co and the verb agitare, which is the root of the English words agitate and agitation.

#7

Metaphor has been condemned for promoting immorality and licentiousness, and it has been considered a devious use of language. However, many philosophers have argued that metaphor is a harmless diversion and a deliberate and potentially dangerous obfuscation.

#8

Metaphor is a very precise tool. It is used to transfer existing names or descriptions to things that are either so new that they have not yet been named or so abstract that they cannot be otherwise explained.

#9

The markets are jittery today. The markets do not get the jitters, but investors do. The phrase metaphorically expresses the prevailing uncertainty. The word emotion comes from the Latin verb movere, which means to move.

#10

The seeing is knowing metaphor is present throughout the Indo-European language group. The Indo-European root *weid, meaning to see, became *oida (to know) in Greek, *fios (knowledge) in Irish, and words like wit, witness, and idea in English.

#11

The equation of size with significance is present in Zulu, Hawaiian, Turkish, Malay, and Russian as well as English. The use of the sense of smell to indicate suspicion is universal, active even in a geographically isolated non-Indo-European language like Basque.

#12

The word stock is a fluid metaphor, derived from the Anglo-French brokur, the person in a tavern who tapped kegs of wine or beer. Today, brokers are still in the business of tapping liquidity for clients or draining it from them.

#13

The poets made all the words, and language is the archives of history. Each word was originally a stroke of genius that symbolized the world to the first speaker and the hearer. The metaphors entombed in even the simplest words are not mere etymological curiosities.

#14

The most important example of economic rhetoric is metaphor. Economists call them models. To say that markets can be represented by supply and demand curves is no less a metaphor than to say that the west wind is the breath of autumn’s being.

#15

The brain is always searching for pattern. When exposed to alternating visual stimuli on the left and right sides of a display, infants as young as two months old instinctively shift their eyes to the next expected spot in the sequence.

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