COG SCI C101 Lecture 10: Metaphorical Mappings
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Very often, abstract domains are less accessible intersubjectively: easier to tell whether you"re standing up straight than whether you"re happy, other people are more likely to agree with and have the same access to it! We don"t have access to the world, but we have access to our experience of the world: some experiences are not intersubjective! No one on the outside has access to your experience of it: experiential reference frames! and visible and accessible! Emotions are more abstract and not as accessible, body posture is more concrete. Volume judgments are less intersubjectively accessible to humans than height: however volume is no more abstract than height! Metaphors as a bridge between source and target domains. Primary scene: experiential recurring experiences/circumstances where salient correlations between two domains occurs: must be an early experience; part of a developmental ingraining, example: correlation between volume/quantity and height!
