Metaphor:SEEING IS TOUCHING

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Name Gloss SEEING IS TOUCHING
Name Transcription
Aliases

SEEING IS TOUCHING (Metaphor+)

VISUAL ATTENTION IS CONTACT

VISION IS PHYSICAL CONTACT (Grady (1998))

Description
Metaphor Level General
Metaphor Type Primary
Experiential Basis
Source Frame Touching
Roles:toucher, touched_thing, sense_of_touch, touch_input, touch_bodypart
Target Frame Seeing
Roles:see-er, seen_object, eyes, vision_x-schema, visual_ability, seen_object_perceived_elements


Mappings:

eyes <= touch_bodypart
visual_ability <= sense_of_touch
seen_object <= touched_thing
visual_input <= tactile_input
see-er <= toucher

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor SEEING IS TOUCHING
Relation Type is related to
Related Metaphor VIRTUAL MOTION IS ACTUAL MOTION
Description

Entailments:

Target Entailment Changing visual attention
Source Inference Changing location
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s)

Examples:

Example Text: His eyes scoured the horizon.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:
Annotation:
Comments:

Graph of related metaphors:

digraph meta4tggrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Cause to see" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Cause_to_see" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Seeing" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Seeing" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "is in causal relation with" fontsize="8.0" ]; n3 [label="Directed vision" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Directed_vision" fontsize="10.0" ];

n3 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n4 [label="Visual obstruction" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Visual_obstruction" fontsize="10.0" ];

n4 -> n2 [label = "is in causal relation with" fontsize="8.0" ]; n5 [label="Perception" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Perception" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n5 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n6 [label="Luminosity" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Luminosity" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n6 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; }

digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="KNOWING IS TOUCHING" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:KNOWING_IS_TOUCHING" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"]; n2 [label="SEEING IS TOUCHING" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:SEEING_IS_TOUCHING" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "has as transitive subpart 1" fontsize="8.0" color="purple" ]; n3 [label="VIRTUAL MOTION IS ACTUAL MOTION" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:VIRTUAL_MOTION_IS_ACTUAL_MOTION" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

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

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

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

n2 -> n3 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ];

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

Facts about "SEEING IS TOUCHING"
EntailmentChanging visual attention (Changing location, ?, ?) +
ExampleEnglish (His eyes scoured the horizon., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Touching +
Has target frameFrame:Seeing +
Mappingeyes (touch_bodypart, ?) +, visual_ability (sense_of_touch, ?) +, seen_object (touched_thing, ?) +, visual_input (tactile_input, ?) + and see-er (toucher, ?) +
Metaphor.AliasSEEING IS TOUCHING (Metaphor+) +, VISUAL ATTENTION IS CONTACT (?) + and VISION IS PHYSICAL CONTACT (Grady (1998)) +
Metaphor.Investigated forEnglish +
Metaphor.LevelGeneral +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Touching +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Seeing +
Metaphor.TypePrimary +
Related metaphoris related to (VIRTUAL MOTION IS ACTUAL MOTION, ?) +
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:SEEING IS TOUCHING#Is_example_of +