Metaphor:SICKNESS IS DOWN

Name Gloss	SICKNESS IS DOWN
Name Transcription
Aliases	SICKNESS IS DOWN (Metaphors We Live By)
Description
Metaphor Level	General
Metaphor Type	Primary, Entailed
Experiential Basis

Source Frame	Being at a Low Location Roles:located_thing, current_location, low_landmark
Target Frame	Health Roles:state_of_health, entity_possessing_health, degree_of_health, domain_of_health

Mappings:

sick_entity	<=	supine_entity

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor	SICKNESS IS DOWN
Relation Type	is an entailment of
Related Metaphor	HEALTH IS VERTICALITY
Description	A scalar entailment focusing on the negative end of the scale.

Entailments:

Examples:

Example Text:	He's sinking fast.
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Example Text:	He came down with the flu.
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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" ];

n2 -> n1 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="Experiencing a state" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Experiencing_a_state" fontsize="10.0" ];

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

n2 -> n4 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; }

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n1 -> n2 [label = "is an entailment of" fontsize="8.0" color="orange" ]; }

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n1 -> n2 [label = "is in a scalar opposition to" fontsize="8.0" ]; n3 [label="Sunken confinement" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Sunken_confinement" fontsize="10.0" ];

n3 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n4 [label="Being at a location" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Being_at_a_location" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n4 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n5 [label="Vertical position" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Vertical_position" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n5 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ];

n2 -> n1 [label = "is in a scalar opposition to" fontsize="8.0" ]; }