Fighting an illness, losing a battle: Do war metaphors impact patient experiences?
In our ongoing series discussing the impact of metaphors, we examined how language of war is used for debates and arguments. The use of war metaphors in the English language extends beyond arguments. Metaphors help us link abstract concepts and experiences with more concrete ones. But metaphors can also inform our experiences by highlighting or […]
Dancing over dueling: How English metaphors make arguments a matter of war
In our last post on metaphors, we discovered that much of our daily language contains metaphors we’re unaware of – like spending time or falling into a coma. In this post, we are going to explore war metaphors as applied to debates and arguments. Metaphors can deeply shape our thinking, a core idea of George […]
The Metaphor Next Door: Metaphor is Ordinary Language
Why do we spend time instead of letting it pass? In English, we think of time as money: “The dog wasted 15 minutes smelling bushes this morning instead of peeing. Then I had to spend 30 minutes looking for my keys, and on top of that traffic today cost me an hour more than usual! […]