Metaphor:QUANTITY IS SIZE

Name Gloss	QUANTITY IS SIZE
Name Transcription
Aliases	QUANTITY IS SIZE AMOUNT IS SIZE QUANTITY IS VOLUME
Description
Metaphor Level	General
Metaphor Type	Primary
Experiential Basis	As the amount of an entity or group of entiies increases, the 3-dimensional spatial extent of that entity tends to increase

Source Frame	Size Roles:entity, entity_size, size_scale, scalar_position
Target Frame	Quantity Roles:entity, entity_amount, quantity_scale, measure_of_quantity

Mappings:

entity	<=	entity

quantity_scale	<=	size_scale

measure_of_quantity	<=	scalar_position

entity_amount	<=	entity_size

Related Metaphors:

Entailments:

Target Entailment	greater quantities
Source Inference	larger sizes
Type of Inferential Structure	aligned scales
Entailed Metaphor(s)	MORE IS BIG

Target Entailment	lesser quantities
Source Inference	smaller sizes
Type of Inferential Structure	aligned scales
Entailed Metaphor(s)	LESS IS SMALL

Examples:

Example Text:	What is the size of your bank account?
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:	Ellen
Annotation:
Comments:

Example Text:	He doesn't know how big our national debt is.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:	Ellen
Annotation:
Comments:

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Graph of related metaphors:

• Target frame
• Metaphors
• Source frame

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n1 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }

digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="EXCESS WEALTH IS LARGE GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:EXCESS_WEALTH_IS_LARGE_GEOGRAPHIC_FEATURES" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"]; n2 [label="QUANTITY IS SIZE" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:QUANTITY_IS_SIZE" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "is both a source and target subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="IMPORTANCE IS SIZE" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:IMPORTANCE_IS_SIZE" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n3 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n4 [label="LESS IS SMALL" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:LESS_IS_SMALL" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n4 -> n2 [label = "is an entailment of" fontsize="8.0" color="orange" ]; n5 [label="MORE IS BIG" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:MORE_IS_BIG" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n5 -> n2 [label = "is an entailment of" fontsize="8.0" color="orange" ]; }

digraph meta4srcgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Decrease size" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Decrease_size" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Size" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Size" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

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

n3 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n4 [label="Large geographic features" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Large_geographic_features" fontsize="10.0" ];

n4 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n5 [label="Object" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Object" fontsize="10.0" ];

n5 -> n2 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ]; n6 [label="Trajector landmark" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Trajector_landmark" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n6 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n7 [label="Scale" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Scale" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n7 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ];

n2 -> n5 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ]; }