Metaphor:MORALITY IS STRAIGHTNESS

Name Gloss	MORALITY IS STRAIGHTNESS
Name Transcription
Aliases	MORALITY IS STRAIGHTNESS (Master Metaphor List (Lakoff, Espenson & Schwartz 1991),185)
Description
Metaphor Level	General
Metaphor Type	Primary
Experiential Basis

Source Frame	Straightness Roles:
Target Frame	Morality Roles:

Mappings:

moral_person	<=	straight_object

morality	<=	property_of_being_straight

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor	MORALITY IS STRAIGHTNESS
Relation Type	is in some source relation to
Related Metaphor	MORALITY IS A STRAIGHT PATH
Description

Current Metaphor	MORALITY IS STRAIGHTNESS
Relation Type	is in some source relation to
Related Metaphor	MORALITY IS UPRIGHTNESS
Description

Entailments:

Target Entailment	being moral
Source Inference	being straight
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s)	MORAL IS STRAIGHT

Target Entailment	being immoral
Source Inference	being crooked
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s)	IMMORAL IS CROOKED

Examples:

Example Text:	Be straight with me.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:
Annotation:
Comments:

Example Text:	He's a crooked businessman.
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Graph of related metaphors:

• Target frame
• Metaphors
• Source frame

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