...contexts in a variety of ways, what is needed (metaphorically) is a way in. Metaphor can be defined as "understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another," that is, understanding the unfamiliar in terms of the familiar.43 For example, to say that "God is...

...elements in the work of Lakoff and Johnson. Their 1980 opus Metaphors We Live By proposed that we consider metaphor as "understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another" 1"1 . Macky criticises their position as too inspecific to differentiate metaphorical use of language...

...cognitive process is one that transfers the meaning of one term to another: "The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another" (1980, 5). This is true of all metaphorical expressions: conventional, poetic, figurative, and literal. Metaphor,...

...metaphor is "an ontological mapping across conceptual domains" , so that "the essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another" (1980, 5; see also Way, 1991). Search for patterns, which is responsible for metaphors, is an overall cognitive...

...difference in global politics. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explain that "the essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another" (1980, 5). They contend that "metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and...

...interpretation. 2.1 What is an interface metaphor? Lakoff and Johnson (1980) conceptualize metaphors as 'understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another ' and claim that metaphors are not only pervasive in language, but they are a fundamental part of our...

...house. Do you understand how that is so?" Lakoff and Johnson have observed, "The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another" (1980: 5). The visual presence of the pottu, kolam, and other forms of ritual traces of worship indicates that...

...events in the past. These examples illustrate Lakoff and Johnson's view that the 'essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another' (1980, p. 5). Metaphors are very common in signed languages (eg, Brennan, 1990; Wilcox, 2000). For example,...

...Johnson (1980:5) show how our entire use of concepts depends on metaphor, which they define succinctly as 'understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another'. The key word in their definition is experiencing since their case rests on language referring not just...

...with "accommodation" that leads to the mental experience which Lakoff and Johnson (1980: 5) describe as "understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another." A noteworthy advance of blending theory is that it allows analysts a way of describing examples in...