Answer:
Umm I have two answers and am not sure which one it is so you can pick
Explanation:
1.
In other words, we speak constantly as if we put ideas/objects into words/containers and then send them ‘along a conduit’ to someone else who then unpacks those ideas/objects. Just take a look at the way we talk:
It’s hard to get that idea across to him.
I gave you that idea.
Your reasons came through to us.
It’s difficult to put my ideas into words.
When you have a good idea, try to capture it immediately in words.
Try to pack more thought into fewer words.
You can’t simply stuff ideas into a sentence any old way.
The meaning is right there in the words.
Don’t force your meanings into the wrong words.
His words carry little meaning.
The introduction has a great deal of thought content.
Your words seem hollow.
The sentence is without meaning.
The idea is buried in terribly dense paragraphs.
As you can see, these are common ways of speaking that you or I might use any number of times throughout the day--yet rarely, if ever, do we recognize that we are utilizing shared metaphors that are indispensable for anyone who wishes to communicate meaning.
2.
In this sense, structure metaphors help people understand target concepts via mappings. Lakoff and Johnson state that structural metaphors are culturally grounded in our experience. They take ARGUMENT IS WAR metaphor as an example to illustrate how argument is conceptualized in terms of physical conflict.
....So umm yh pick....
-Debbie
