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Metaphor E1: Metaphor & Our Imagination

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Metaphors We Live By

The book I've read is Metaphors We Live By, It's Lakeoff in Johnson. Their basic point is a poet can talk about one thing in terms of another and we call it metaphor. But what they're whole case is that our brains are making sense of complex unfamiliar experience data constantly. And what they're doing is using pre-existing categories from past experience. They're usually more concrete and familiar. Then as if we project our experience of the past onto this present unfamiliar thing.

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