Metaphor:PURITY IS CLEANLINESS

Name Gloss	PURITY IS CLEANLINESS
Name Transcription
Aliases	PURITY IS CLEANLINESS (Metaphors We Live By, Philosophy in the Flesh,307) PURE IS CLEAN (Elise)
Description
Metaphor Level	General
Metaphor Type	Primary
Experiential Basis	Pure substances have nothing else mixed in with them; a common impurity is dirt, which is dirty. Hence, impure substances are dirty, and pure substances are clean.

Source Frame	Cleanliness Roles:
Target Frame	Purity Roles:pure_entity, pure_condition, purity_x-schema

Mappings:

pure_substance	<=	clean_substance
a pure substance is one that is free from other substances (impurities); a clean substance has no dirty or unhealthy substances in it.

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor	PURITY IS CLEANLINESS
Relation Type	is related to
Related Metaphor	MORALITY IS PURITY
Description	Part of the Purity cascade

Entailments:

Target Entailment	Purifying
Source Inference	Cleansing
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s)	PURIFYING IS CLEANSING

Examples:

Example Text:	He's pure evil.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:	Philosophy in the Flesh (307)
Annotation:
Comments:	pure - target language

Example Text:	Her soul was scrubbed clean of impurities.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:
Annotation:
Comments:	scrubbed clean - source; impurities - target

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Graph of related metaphors:

• Target frame
• Metaphors
• Source frame

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n1 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n3 [label="Impurity" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Impurity" fontsize="10.0" ];

n3 -> n2 [label = "is in a scalar opposition to" fontsize="8.0" ]; }

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n1 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; }

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n1 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n3 [label="Purity" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Purity" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n3 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; }