conceptual metaphor

collocation in English

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conceptual
adjective
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/kənˈsep.tʃu.əl/us
/kənˈsep.tʃu.əl/
based on ideas ...
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metaphor
noun[C or U]
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/ˈmet.ə.fɔːr/us
/ˈmet̬.ə.fɔːr/
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 ...
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(Definition ofconceptualandmetaphorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconceptual metaphor

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Indeed, elaborations at this more specific level may, perhaps more plausibly, give rise to the more general abstractions in evidence inconceptualmetaphortheory.
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No attempt is made to account for the unpredictability by other means, that is,conceptualmetaphor, prototype theory.
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Aconceptualmetaphoruses one idea and links it to another to better understand something.
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When considering the roleconceptualmetaphorplays in the worldview of the community, the problem becomes twofold.
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Aconceptualmetaphorfor a shifting baseline is the price of coffee.
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Thus, they are broadly equivalent to the notions of "target" and "source domains" inconceptualmetaphortheory.
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For example, theconceptualmetaphorof viewing communication as a conduit is one large theory explained with a metaphor.
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The same idea of mapping between source and target is used byconceptualmetaphorand conceptual blending theorists.
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An example of aconceptualmetaphoris love is a journey.
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To know aconceptualmetaphoris to know the set of mappings that applies to a given source-target pairing.
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Other cognitive scientists study subjects similar toconceptualmetaphorunder the labels analogy and conceptual blending.
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In cognitive linguistics, the notion ofconceptualmetaphormay be equivalent to that of analogy.
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Compositional models include the "configurational hypothesis" and the "conceptualmetaphorhypothesis".
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Why do some people dislikeconceptualmetaphortheory?
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In contemporary cognitive linguistics, an image schema is considered an embodied prelinguistic structure of experience that motivatesconceptualmetaphormappings.
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When learners acquire conceptual metaphors as well as linguistic metaphors stemming from them, their voices echo the cultures from which the words come.
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Many more linguistic expressions could be cited which are grounded in these same two conceptual metaphors.
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Not all linguistic metaphors are based on established, conventionalized conceptual metaphors.
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Similarly, the mappings of aconceptualmetaphorare themselves motivated by image schemas which are pre-linguistic schemas concerning space, time, moving, controlling, and other core elements of embodied human experience.
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More specifically, cognitive linguists speak of conceptual metaphors, by which we understand one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain with which it shares certain structural affinities.
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