Metaphor:DESIRE IS HUNGER

Name Gloss	DESIRE IS HUNGER
Name Transcription
Aliases	DESIRE IS HUNGER (Master Metaphor List (Lakoff, Espenson & Schwartz 1991),194)
Description
Metaphor Level	General
Metaphor Type	Primary
Experiential Basis

Source Frame	Hunger Roles:hunger_sensation, hunger_x-schema, experiencer
Target Frame	Desire Roles:

Mappings:

desire	<=	hunger

desirer	<=	hungry_person

desired_object	<=	object_hungered_for

desire_x-schema	<=	hunger_x-schema

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor	DESIRE IS HUNGER
Relation Type	is related to
Related Metaphor	GETTING IS EATING
Description

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Example Text:	He's drooling over a new car.
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Example Text:	He hungered for her attention.
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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" ]; n3 [label="Romantic love" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Romantic_love" fontsize="10.0" ];

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

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n2 -> n3 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; }

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n1 -> n2 [label = "is a perspective on" fontsize="8.0" ]; n3 [label="Eating" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Eating" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n3 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; }