Metaphor:BELIEFS ARE POSSESSIONS

Name Gloss	BELIEFS ARE POSSESSIONS
Name Transcription
Aliases	BELIEFS ARE POSSESSIONS (Master Metaphor List (Lakoff, Espenson & Schwartz 1991),102)
Description
Metaphor Level	General
Metaphor Type	Primary
Experiential Basis

Source Frame	Possession Roles:possessor, possession, possess_relation, possess_relation_status, possess_relation_x-schema
Target Frame	Belief Roles:belief, believer, belief_relation, belief_relation_status

Mappings:

belief	<=	possession

believer	<=	possessor

belief_relation_status	<=	possess_relation_status

belief_relation	<=	possession_relation

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor	BELIEFS ARE POSSESSIONS
Relation Type	is both a source and target subcase of
Related Metaphor	IDEAS ARE OBJECTS
Description

Current Metaphor	BELIEFS ARE POSSESSIONS
Relation Type	is a target subcase of
Related Metaphor	IDEAS ARE POSSESSIONS
Description

Entailments:

Examples:

Example Text:	Hold on to your beliefs and never let them go.
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Graph of related metaphors:

• Target frame
• Metaphors
• Source frame

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n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

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n1 -> n2 [label = "is both a source and target subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="IDEAS ARE POSSESSIONS" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:IDEAS_ARE_POSSESSIONS" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n1 -> n3 [label = "is a target subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

digraph meta4srcgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Economic status" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Economic_status" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Possession" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Possession" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n3 [label="Gain possession" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Gain_possession" fontsize="10.0" ];

n3 -> n2 [label = "is a perspective on" fontsize="8.0" ]; n4 [label="Grasp" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Grasp" fontsize="10.0" ];

n4 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n5 [label="Gun possession" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Gun_possession" fontsize="10.0" ];

n5 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n6 [label="Lose possession" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Lose_possession" fontsize="10.0" ];

n6 -> n2 [label = "is a perspective on" fontsize="8.0" ]; n7 [label="Losing" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Losing" fontsize="10.0" ];

n7 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n8 [label="Ownership" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Ownership" fontsize="10.0" ];

n8 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n9 [label="Part whole" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Part_whole" fontsize="10.0" ];

n9 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n10 [label="Possessable object" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Possessable_object" fontsize="10.0" ];

n10 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n11 [label="Possession change" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Possession_change" fontsize="10.0" ];

n11 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n12 [label="Relation" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Relation" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n12 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n13 [label="Access to an object" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Access_to_an_object" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n13 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ];

n2 -> n10 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ]; }