Metaphor:GOVERNMENT IS A SHEPHERD

Name Gloss	GOVERNMENT IS A SHEPHERD
Name Transcription
Aliases
Description
Metaphor Level	Specific
Metaphor Type	Composed/complex
Experiential Basis

Source Frame	Shepherding Roles:shepherd, shepherding_activities, objective(s), sheep
Target Frame	Government Roles:governor, jurisdiction_region, governed, governed_activity, governing_powers, source_of_powers, governing_actions, constraints_on_governing_actions, legitimacy, governor_objectives

Mappings:

governor	<=	shepherd

governed	<=	sheep

governor_objectives	<=	objective(s)

governing_actions	<=	shepherding_activities

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor	GOVERNMENT IS A SHEPHERD
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
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
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
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
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:	Book title, by Mike Sodrel
Annotation:
Comments:

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.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:	Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, section 4 chapter 6
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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.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:	"Conservative Historian" webpage: http://conservativehistorian.com/columns/platoandpresidentobama.html Accessed 11/29/12
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Graph of related metaphors:

• Target frame
• Metaphors
• Source frame

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