Metaphor:UNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING
Aliases | UNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING (Metaphors We Live By, Grady) |
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Description | |
Metaphor Level | General |
Metaphor Type | Primary |
Experiential Basis |
Source Frame | Object manipulation Roles:
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Target Frame | Understanding Roles:understanding_person, understanding_x-schema
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Mappings:
understanding_person | <= | grasping_person |
understood_idea | <= | grasped_object |
Related Metaphors:
Current Metaphor | UNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING |
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Relation Type | is both a source and target subcase of |
Related Metaphor | THINKING IS OBJECT MANIPULATION |
Description |
Entailments:
Target Entailment | Inability to understand |
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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. |
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Example Text: | He got a good handle on the subject matter. |
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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" ]; }
Entailment | Inability to understand (Inability to grasp, ?, INABILITY TO UNDERSTAND IS INABILITY TO GRASP) + |
Example | English (He just can't seem to grasp the concept., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) + and English (He got a good handle on the subject matter., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) + |
Has source frame | Frame:Object manipulation + |
Has target frame | Frame:Understanding + |
Mapping | understanding_person (grasping_person, ?) + and understood_idea (grasped_object, ?) + |
Metaphor.Alias | UNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING (Metaphors We Live By, Grady) + |
Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
Metaphor.Level | General + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Object manipulation + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Understanding + |
Metaphor.Type | Primary + |
Related metaphor | is 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 + |