Metaphor:UNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING

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Name Gloss UNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING
Name Transcription
Aliases

UNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING (Metaphors We Live By, Grady)

Description
Metaphor Level General
Metaphor Type Primary
Experiential Basis
Source Frame Object manipulation
Roles:
Target Frame Understanding
Roles:understanding_person, understanding_x-schema


Mappings:

understanding_person <= grasping_person
understood_idea <= grasped_object

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor UNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING
Relation Type is both a source and target subcase of
Related Metaphor THINKING IS OBJECT MANIPULATION
Description

Entailments:

Target Entailment Inability to understand
Source Inference Inability to grasp
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s) INABILITY TO UNDERSTAND IS INABILITY TO GRASP

Examples:

Example Text: He just can't seem to grasp the concept.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:
Annotation:
Comments:
Example Text: He got a good handle on the subject matter.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:
Annotation:
Comments:

Graph of related metaphors:

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

n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="IDEAS ARE OBJECTS" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:IDEAS_ARE_OBJECTS" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"]; n2 [label="UNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:UNDERSTANDING_IS_GRASPING" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n3 [label="THINKING IS OBJECT MANIPULATION" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:THINKING_IS_OBJECT_MANIPULATION" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n3 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ];

n2 -> n3 [label = "is both a source and target subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

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

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

n3 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n4 [label="Object insertion" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Object_insertion" fontsize="10.0" ];

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

n5 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n6 [label="Weapons handling" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Weapons_handling" fontsize="10.0" ];

n6 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

EntailmentInability to understand (Inability to grasp, ?, INABILITY TO UNDERSTAND IS INABILITY TO GRASP) +
ExampleEnglish (He just can't seem to grasp the concept., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) + and English (He got a good handle on the subject matter., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Object manipulation +
Has target frameFrame:Understanding +
Mappingunderstanding_person (grasping_person, ?) + and understood_idea (grasped_object, ?) +
Metaphor.AliasUNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING (Metaphors We Live By, Grady) +
Metaphor.Investigated forEnglish +
Metaphor.LevelGeneral +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Object manipulation +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Understanding +
Metaphor.TypePrimary +
Related metaphoris both a source and target subcase of (THINKING IS OBJECT MANIPULATION, ?) +
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:UNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING#Is_example_of +