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- As described by linguist George Lackoff, a spatial metaphor (also orientational metaphor) is a conceptual metaphor in which the elements involved are spatially related to each other, i.e. they are respectively above or below, in or out, in front of or behind, in depth or on the surface, in the center or on the periphery, and so on (Lackoff, 1980).
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Dec 9, 2023 · Concept: Cognitive and Linguistic Roots: Rooted in cognitive and linguistic mechanisms, spatial metaphor facilitates understanding abstract concepts by mapping them onto concrete, spatial experiences.
Nov 19, 2023 · As described by linguist George Lackoff, a spatial metaphor (also orientational metaphor) is a conceptual metaphor in which the elements involved are spatially related to each other, i.e. they are respectively above or below, in or out, in front of or behind, in depth or on the surface, in the center or on the periphery, and so on (Lackoff, 1980).
an expression, often found in literature, that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics to that person ... See more at metaphor. (Definition of spatial and metaphor from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of spatial metaphor.
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- Physical and Cultural Elements in Orientational Metaphors
- Lakoff and Johnson on The Experiential Basis of Metaphors
"[A]ll the following concepts are characterized by an 'upward' orientation, while their 'opposites' receive a 'downward' orientation. Upward orientation tends to go together with positive evaluation, while downward orientation with a negative one." (Zoltán Kövecses, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2010)
"Orientational metaphorsthat are strongly cultural in content form an internally consistent set with those that emerge most directly from our physical experience. The up-down orientational metaphor can apply to situations that contain both physical and cultural elements, such as Here good health is associated with 'up,' in part because of the gener...
"In actuality we feel that no metaphor can ever be comprehended or even adequately represented independently of its experiential basis. For example, MORE IS UP has a very different kind of experiential basis than HAPPY IS UP or RATIONAL IS UP. Though the concept UP is the same in all these metaphors, the experiences on which these UP metaphors are ...
- Richard Nordquist
Nov 20, 2022 · What is a spatial metaphor? In the context of human-computer interaction, the word “metaphor” is most often used to describe the desktop, menu, and folder metaphors (among others) that have become ubiquitous elements of the graphical user interface.
spatial metaphors as a distinctive, novel, and largely unac- knowledged feature of contemporary sociology, distinguishing it from preceding (classical and mid-twentieth century)
The introduction to the volume Spatial Metaphors: Ancient Texts and Transformations encom-passes two sections: the first part, entitled “Preliminary Remarks on the Theory of Spatial Metaphors”,isaimedatprovidingatheoreticalframeworkforthestudyofspatialmetaphors by suggesting a classification according to specificity and extent.
