Metaphor:BEING IMPOVERISHED IS BEING AT A LOW LOCATION

Name Gloss	BEING IMPOVERISHED IS BEING AT A LOW LOCATION
Name Transcription
Aliases
Description	e.g. She lives in the pits of poverty
Metaphor Level	Specific
Metaphor Type
Experiential Basis

Source Frame	Being at a Low Location Roles:located_thing, current_location, low_landmark
Target Frame	Impoverished Roles:experiencer, economic_state, impoverishment, state_x-schema

Mappings:

experiencer	<=	located_thing

impoverishment	<=	low_landmark

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor	BEING IMPOVERISHED IS BEING AT A LOW LOCATION
Relation Type	is a source subcase of
Related Metaphor	BEING IMPOVERISHED IS BEING IN A BOUNDED REGION
Description

Entailments:

Target Entailment	becoming impoverished
Source Inference	downward motion; motion towards low(er) location
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s)	BECOMING IMPOVERISHED IS MOVING DOWNWARDS

Target Entailment	being impoverished
Source Inference	co-location with low entity
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s)

Target Entailment	becoming less impoverished
Source Inference	motion upwards; motion away from a low location
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s)

Examples:

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Graph of related metaphors:

• Target frame
• Metaphors
• Source frame

digraph meta4tggrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Impoverished" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Impoverished" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ]; n2 [label="Experiencing a negative state" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Experiencing_a_negative_state" fontsize="10.0" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="Poverty" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Poverty" fontsize="10.0" ];

n1 -> n3 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n4 [label="Experiencing an economic status" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Experiencing_an_economic_status" fontsize="10.0" ];

n1 -> n4 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="BECOMING IMPOVERISHED IS MOVING DOWNWARDS" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:BECOMING_IMPOVERISHED_IS_MOVING_DOWNWARDS" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"]; n2 [label="BEING IMPOVERISHED IS BEING AT A LOW LOCATION" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:BEING_IMPOVERISHED_IS_BEING_AT_A_LOW_LOCATION" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "is an entailment of" fontsize="8.0" color="orange" ]; n3 [label="BEING IMPOVERISHED IS BEING IN A BOUNDED REGION" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:BEING_IMPOVERISHED_IS_BEING_IN_A_BOUNDED_REGION" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n2 -> n3 [label = "is a source subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

digraph meta4srcgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Being at a High Location" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Being_at_a_High_Location" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Being at a Low Location" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Being_at_a_Low_Location" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "is in a scalar opposition to" fontsize="8.0" ]; n3 [label="Sunken confinement" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Sunken_confinement" fontsize="10.0" ];

n3 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n4 [label="Being at a location" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Being_at_a_location" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n4 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n5 [label="Vertical position" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Vertical_position" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n5 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ];

n2 -> n1 [label = "is in a scalar opposition to" fontsize="8.0" ]; }