In our culture, time, like money, is a very valued commodity. These expressions are conventionally fixed within the English lexicon, and are reflective of the systematic metaphorical concepts that structure the way we experience time. However, the phrasal lexicon associated with money plainly illustrates the metaphorical way in which we think and speak about time.
These “metaphorical linguistics expressions” are used in everyday language and are considered neither figurative nor metaphorical by most English speakers. I don’t have enough time to spare for that. Common linguistic expressions reflect this metaphor and demonstrate the use of the metaphor not only in the way we speak about TIME but the way we conceptualize it:
Take, for example, the concept of TIME, and a conceptual metaphor that structures how it is perceived, TIME IS MONEY. Lakoff and Johnson use linguistic evidence to study conceptual metaphors and the metaphorical character of our experiences, stating that “metaphors as linguistic expressions are possible precisely because there are metaphors in a person’s conceptual system” (6). The theory of a metaphorical conceptual system thus entails that our perceptions, experiences, and actions are also completely metaphorical. Our conceptual system structures what and how we perceive the world, life, and reality. In Metaphors We live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson provide a rebuttal of this two-thousand-year-old fallacy, and argue that the use of metaphor is inherent in cognition and perception, and that the nature of our conceptual system is entirely metaphorical. Urn:oclc:821146582 Scandate 20110821090549 Scanner as a term is rarely taken out of the context of rhetorical and figurative language, and is overwhelmingly viewed as a product of language, an imaginative linguistic output. OL1952983W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.92 Pages 262 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0226468372 Urn:lcp:metaphorsweliveb00lako:epub:d2a2a0f9-3c7b-44ee-befd-7e0c3e8b29f1 Extramarc Notre Dame Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier metaphorsweliveb00lako Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5s76b29c Isbn 0226468011Ĩ0107838 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:36:44 Boxid IA118916 Boxid_2 CH105201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Chicago Donor
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