Tag: Conceptual blending

What is not a metaphor: Modelling the world through language, thought, science, or action

by Dominik Lukeš · 2014-03-04

The role of metaphor in science debate (Background) Recently, the LSE podcast an interesting panel on the subject of "Metaphors and Science" . It featured three speakers talking about the interface between metaphor and various 'scientific' disciplines (economics, physics and surgery). Unlike many such occasions, all speakers were actually very knowledgeable and thoughtful on the…

Hacking a metaphor in five steps

by Dominik Lukeš · 2010-07-18

Preliminaries 1. Before you start metaphor hacking you must first accept that you don't have a choice but to speak in some sort of a figurative fashion. Almost nothing worth saying is entirely literal and there are many things whose "literalness" is rooted in metaphor. Look at "I sat in a chair the whole day."…