Metaphor:ELECTION IS WAR

Name Gloss	ELECTION IS WAR
Name Transcription
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Description
Metaphor Level	Specific
Metaphor Type	Composed/complex
Experiential Basis

Source Frame	War Roles:battlefield, enemy_attack, generals, army, enemy_combatants, weapons, war_strategies, civilians, victory, enemy_conquest, fighting, side1, side2
Target Frame	Election Roles:voter, candidate1, candidate2, office, outcome, voting_event, institution, ballot, ballot_counting

Mappings:

candidate1	<=	War.side1

candidate2	<=	War.side2

Related Metaphors:

Entailments:

Target Entailment	Only one candidate can win the office
Source Inference	Only one side can win the war
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s)

Examples:

Example Text:	...the fight for the White House is being waged on intensely local terrain...
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Provenance:	http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/us/politics/in-final-days-of-presidential-election-fighting-county-by-county.html?pagewanted=all
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Example Text:	the war for the presidency is nearly over
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Example Text:	Mr. Romney will likely fight hard in the state, given his family ties, but he has an uphill battle.
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Provenance:	elections.nytimes.com/2012/ratings/electoral-map
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Example Text:	Both sides girded for battle, as they knew the general election would be a hard-won fight.
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Example Text:	The underdog and his advisers plotted how best to overpower the incumbent.
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Example Text:	Campaign Craft: The Strategies, Tactics, and Art of Political Campaign Management
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Provenance:	2001, Daniel M. Shea (book)
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Graph of related metaphors:

• Target frame
• Metaphors
• Source frame

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n1 -> n3 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }