![]() ![]() This metaphor infuses into phrases we commonly use: “it’s hard to get that idea across,” “it’s difficult to put my ideas into words,” and so forth. One metaphor the book names is the CONDUIT metaphor for language use: that linguistic expressions are containers for meaning, and that speakers put ideas (OBJECTS) into words (CONTAINERS), sending them (along a CONDUIT) to hearers who take the objects out of the containers. ![]() Lakoff and Johnson argue that metaphors aren’t linguistic devices so much as ways we structure our thoughts, that happen to get surfaced in how we use language. It was zippy and fabulous and is in large part about the ways in which metaphors get naturalized into how we think about the world. The last book I read in a coffee shop, in 2020, was Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, published 1980. ![]()
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