Metaphor:ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT
Aliases | ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT (Philosophy in the Flesh,197) |
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Description | |
Metaphor Level | General |
Metaphor Type | Primary, Composed/complex |
Experiential Basis |
Source Frame | Gain possession Roles:recipient, source, possessable_object, getting_x-schema
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Target Frame | Purposeful action Roles:actor, action_x-schema, objective, action_type, effector, effort
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Mappings:
actor | <= | recipient |
action_x-schema | <= | getting_x-schema |
action.x-schema.final = achivening purpose; getting_x-schema.final = gaining possession |
objective | <= | possession |
Related Metaphors:
Current Metaphor | ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT |
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Relation Type | makes use of |
Related Metaphor | CHANGE IS ACQUISITION |
Description |
Current Metaphor | ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT |
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Relation Type | makes use of |
Related Metaphor | EXPERIENCING A STATE IS POSSESSING AN OBJECT |
Description |
Entailments:
Examples:
Example Text: | They just handed him the job. |
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Provenance: | Philosophy in the Flesh (197) |
Example Text: | Seize the opportunity. |
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Provenance: | Philosophy in the Flesh (197) |
Example Text: | I kept getting close to a world championship, but it kept escaping me. |
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Provenance: | Philosophy in the Flesh (197) |
Example Text: | He finally managed to get a smile out of her. |
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Provenance: | Grady 1998:112 |
Example Text: | She landed four huge accounts this year. |
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Provenance: | Grady 1998:112 |
Graph of related metaphors:
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n2 -> n13 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n14 [label="Desiring" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Desiring" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n14 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }
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n2 -> n4 [label = "is a perspective on" fontsize="8.0" ]; n5 [label="Possessable object" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Possessable_object" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n5 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ]; }
Example | English (They just handed him the job., ?, ?, Philosophy in the Flesh (197), ?, ?, ?) +, English (Seize the opportunity., ?, ?, Philosophy in the Flesh (197), ?, ?, ?) +, English (I kept getting close to a world championship, but it kept escaping me., ?, ?, Philosophy in the Flesh (197), ?, ?, ?) +, English (He finally managed to get a smile out of her., ?, ?, Grady 1998:112, ?, ?, ?) + and English (She landed four huge accounts this year., ?, ?, Grady 1998:112, ?, ?, ?) + |
Has source frame | Frame:Gain possession + |
Has target frame | Frame:Purposeful action + |
Mapping | actor (recipient, ?) +, action_x-schema (getting_x-schema, action.x-schema.final = achivening purpose) + and objective (possession, ?) + |
Metaphor.Alias | ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT (Philosophy in the Flesh) + |
Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
Metaphor.Level | General + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Gain possession + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Purposeful action + |
Metaphor.Type | Primary + and Composed/complex + |
Related metaphor | makes use of (CHANGE IS ACQUISITION, ?) + and makes use of (EXPERIENCING A STATE IS POSSESSING AN OBJECT, ?) + |
Has subobject "Has subobject" is a predefined property representing a container construct that allows to accumulate property-value assignments similar to that of a normal wiki page. | Metaphor:ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT#Is_example_of + |