Metaphor:SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE DISEASES

Name Gloss	SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE DISEASES
Name Transcription
Aliases	SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE DISEASES (George Lakoff) ADDRESSING SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS TREATING A DISEASE
Description
Metaphor Level	General
Metaphor Type	Composed/complex
Experiential Basis

Source Frame	Disease Roles:disease, patient, symptom, body_part, infection_process, health_state
Target Frame	Social problems Roles:social_problem, society, result_of_problem, problem_cause, severity_of_problem

Mappings:

problem	<=	disease

society	<=	person

honest_citizen	<=	healthy_cell

immoral_citizen	<=	diseased_cell

social_program	<=	bodily_healing_system

social_functioning	<=	health_status

authority	<=	doctor

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor	SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE DISEASES
Relation Type	makes use of
Related Metaphor	IMMORALITY IS DISEASE
Description

Current Metaphor	SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE DISEASES
Relation Type	is a source subcase of
Related Metaphor	SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE PHYSICAL AFFLICTIONS
Description

Entailments:

Target Entailment	Societal actions can help reduce or eliminate social problems
Source Inference	people's actions can alleviate symptoms and cure disease
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s)	ADDRESSING SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS TREATING AN ILLNESS

Target Entailment	inability to address social problems results in continued poor function
Source Inference	inability to treat disease results in continued poor health
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s)	INABILITY TO ADDRESS SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS INABILITY TO TREAT A DISEASE

Examples:

Example Text:	Our society is turning gangrene with dishonesty.
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English Translation:
Provenance:	Jisup
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Example Text:	اینگونه جنبشهای اجتماعی (social movements) در واقع یک بیماری اجتتماعی هستند.
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Graph of related metaphors:

• Target frame
• Metaphors
• Source frame

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n2 -> n11 [label = "is a source subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

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