Metaphor:MORALITY IS UPRIGHTNESS

Name Gloss	MORALITY IS UPRIGHTNESS
Name Transcription
Aliases
Description
Metaphor Level	General
Metaphor Type	Composed/complex
Experiential Basis

Source Frame	Upright_posture Roles:upright_entity, upright_position, upright_entity_axis
Target Frame	Morality Roles:

Mappings:

Related Metaphors:

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

Entailments:

Target Entailment	Being moral
Source Inference	Being upright
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s)	BEING MORAL IS BEING UPRIGHT

Target Entailment	Being immoral
Source Inference	Being low
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s)	BEING IMMORAL IS BEING LOW

Examples:

Example Text:	He's an upstanding citizen.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:	Lakoff (Moral Politics, p. 71)
Annotation:
Comments:

Example Text:	That was a low thing to do.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:	Lakoff (Moral Politics, p. 71)
Annotation:
Comments:

Example Text:	He's a snake in the grass.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:	Lakoff (Moral Politics, p. 71)
Annotation:
Comments:

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Graph of related metaphors:

• Target frame
• Metaphors
• Source frame

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