Metaphor:GOVERNMENT IS A SHEPHERD
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Description | |
Metaphor Level | Specific |
Metaphor Type | Composed/complex |
Experiential Basis |
Source Frame | Shepherding Roles:shepherd, shepherding_activities, objective(s), sheep
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Target Frame | Government Roles:governor, jurisdiction_region, governed, governed_activity, governing_powers, source_of_powers, governing_actions, constraints_on_governing_actions, legitimacy, governor_objectives
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Mappings:
governor | <= | shepherd |
governed | <= | sheep |
governor_objectives | <= | objective(s) |
governing_actions | <= | shepherding_activities |
Related Metaphors:
Current Metaphor | GOVERNMENT IS A SHEPHERD |
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Relation Type | is a source subcase of |
Related Metaphor | GOVERNMENT IS A PERSON |
Description |
Entailments:
Target Entailment | If government sucessfully performs action, people will flourish |
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Source Inference | If shepherd successfully performs actions, sheep will flourish |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Target Entailment | government makes decisions, people do what government wants them to |
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Source Inference | shepherd makes decsions; sheep do what shepherd wants them to |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Target Entailment | Governed people are not capable of making decisions or protecting themselves |
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Source Inference | Sheep are not capable of flourishing on their own (without shepherd). |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Examples:
Example Text: | Citizen Sheep Government Shepherds |
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Provenance: | Book title, by Mike Sodrel |
Example Text: | Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. |
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Provenance: | Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, section 4 chapter 6 |
Example Text: | Obama and the Progressives do not believe this. They believe they must decide what is best. In their view Americans are sheep and they are the shepherd. |
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Provenance: | "Conservative Historian" webpage: http://conservativehistorian.com/columns/platoandpresidentobama.html Accessed 11/29/12 |
Graph of related metaphors:
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n1 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n3 [label="Democratic government" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Democratic_government" fontsize="10.0" ];
n3 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n4 [label="Election" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Election" fontsize="10.0" ];
n4 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n5 [label="Governing action" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Governing_action" fontsize="10.0" ];
n5 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n6 [label="Government institution" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Government_institution" fontsize="10.0" ];
n6 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n7 [label="Government legitimacy" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Government_legitimacy" fontsize="10.0" ];
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n2 -> n10 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ];
n2 -> n8 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ];
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n2 -> n11 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n12 [label="Organization" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Organization" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n12 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }
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n1 -> n2 [label = "is a source subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }
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n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }
Entailment | If government sucessfully performs action, people will flourish (If shepherd successfully performs actions, sheep will flourish, ?, ?) +, government makes decisions, people do what government wants them to (shepherd makes decsions, sheep do what shepherd wants them to, ?) + and Governed people are not capable of making decisions or protecting themselves (Sheep are not capable of flourishing on their own (without shepherd)., ?, ?) + |
Example | English (Citizen Sheep Government Shepherds, ?, ?, Book title, by Mike Sodrel, ?, ?, ?) +, English (Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence, it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd., ?, ?, Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, section 4 chapter 6, ?, ?) + and English (Obama and the Progressives do not believe this. They believe they must decide what is best. In their view Americans are sheep and they are the shepherd., ?, ?, "Conservative Historian" webpage: http://conservativehistorian.com/columns/platoandpresidentobama.html Accessed 11/29/12, ?, ?, ?) + |
Has source frame | Frame:Shepherding + |
Has target frame | Frame:Government + |
Mapping | governor (shepherd, ?) +, governed (sheep, ?) +, governor_objectives (objective(s), ?) + and governing_actions (shepherding_activities, ?) + |
Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
Metaphor.Level | Specific + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Shepherding + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Government + |
Metaphor.Type | Composed/complex + |
Related metaphor | is a source subcase of (GOVERNMENT IS A PERSON, ?) + |
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:GOVERNMENT IS A SHEPHERD#Is_example_of + |