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• ANGER IS FIRE
Mappings:
• container body
• hot fluid anger
• degrees of heat degrees of intensity
• etc.
• 2. Everyday creative English (by blending):
• God, was he ever mad. I could see the smoke coming out of his ears –
I thought his hat would catch fire!
• 3. Creative poetic English
Fantasies of murder: not enough: / to kill is to cut off from pain. / but the killer goes
on hurting / Not enough. When I dream of meeting / the enemy, this is my dream:
white acetylene
ripples from my body
effortlessly released
perfectly trained
on the true enemy
raking his body down to the thread / of existence / burning away his lie / leaving him
in a new / world; a changed / man. (Adrienne Rich)
• 4. Visual creativity:
5. Teach metaphors in a cross-cultural
and intracultural perspective.
• Pressure of coherence: universal bodily experience and nonuniversal
contextual experience.
• Dimensions of metaphor variation: crosscultural and intracultural
dimension.
• Within-culture variation: social, subcultural, ethnic, style, diachronic,
and developmental dimensions.
• Globalization in metaphor use: English as a lingua franca. (push)
6. Use corpus-linguistic evidence
for the metaphors you teach.
What is metaphorical salience?
“To use an analogy from the Tour de France, he’s still in the mountain stage, and will
be for some time” (2013, USA TODAY).
mountain stage metaphor: “impediment to motion difficulty of action (making
full confession and being forgiven)” in the ACTION IS MOTION conceptual metaphor.
Conclusions
• Seven principles that might aid the teaching of metaphors.