Metaphor:LOSING AN ELECTION IS LOSING A WAR
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Description | |
Metaphor Level | |
Metaphor Type | Composed/complex, Entailed |
Experiential Basis |
Source Frame | War Roles:battlefield, enemy_attack, generals, army, enemy_combatants, weapons, war_strategies, civilians, victory, enemy_conquest, fighting, side1, side2
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Target Frame | Election Roles:voter, candidate1, candidate2, office, outcome, voting_event, institution, ballot, ballot_counting
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Related Metaphors:
Current Metaphor | LOSING AN ELECTION IS LOSING A WAR |
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Relation Type | is an entailment of |
Related Metaphor | ELECTION IS WAR |
Description |
Entailments:
Examples:
Example Text: | It was a hard-fought battle, but in the end Romney didn't have the numbers to overpower Obama. |
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Example Text: | While at first the numbers were on his side, eventually Gore had to admit defeat to Bush in 2000. |
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Graph of related metaphors:
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n1 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n3 [label="Voting" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Voting" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n3 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n4 [label="Political competition" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Political_competition" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n4 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n5 [label="Debating" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Debating" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n5 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }
digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="LOSING AN ELECTION IS LOSING A WAR" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:LOSING_AN_ELECTION_IS_LOSING_A_WAR" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ]; n2 [label="ELECTION IS WAR" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:ELECTION_IS_WAR" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is an entailment of" fontsize="8.0" color="orange" ]; }
digraph meta4srcgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="War" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:War" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ]; n2 [label="Physical competition" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Physical_competition" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="Physical combat" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Physical_combat" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n3 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }
Example | English (It was a hard-fought battle, but in the end Romney didn't have the numbers to overpower Obama., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) + and English (While at first the numbers were on his side, eventually Gore had to admit defeat to Bush in 2000., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) + |
Has source frame | Frame:War + |
Has target frame | Frame:Election + |
Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:War + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Election + |
Metaphor.Type | Composed/complex + and Entailed + |
Related metaphor | is an entailment of (ELECTION IS WAR, ?) + |
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:LOSING AN ELECTION IS LOSING A WAR#Is_example_of + |