![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
Learn about Lady Business!
A group of fans, reviewers, and critics who like art and media. Hugo Award Winners2. (We really like Hugo Award recommendations.) You can support us on Patreon, read our past work by month or by topic, but please note our comment policy. Learn more »
no subject
Date: 2016-10-19 06:38 pm (UTC)The approach to metaphor is very similar to the one I was taught -- but it frames it in a much more technical apparatus. And one of the major concerns in cognitive metaphor study is how the use of metaphor -- not so much in imaginative language, but in ordinary conversation -- leads to drawing "wrong" conclusions about the target of the metaphor (the thing being talked about) based on knowledge about the source (the words used).