COG SCI C101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Thematic Relation, Electron Microscope, Object Exchange
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A sense of opposing intentional agents acting against each other. Systematic: my view is under attack, defending my position, using strategies, planning campaigns. Conceptual metaphor: unidirectional mapping projecting conceptual material form one structured doman (war) to another (argument) Setting up links (mappings) between speciic elements of the two domains" structures. Verbal disputes: winning, losing, and having a secret weapon. A speaker can toss out an idea, catch onto, or go right past them. Can talk about them like physical things. Structure combat in terms of a debate, not applying makeup to one"s face. Question: if all connnections were possible, the variety of metaphors would be too broad to have any meaning. Earlier theories: any metaphor was posible (the wilder the mapping, the more poetic) Achilles is a lion not based on physical similarity, but ideas/concepts. Conceptual patterns are rooted in human embodied experiences. Metaphoric mappings merigng directl yfrom correlations in experience. Scale-quantity, small quantity, large quantity, increasing, decreasing.
