Metaphor:ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING
Aliases | ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING |
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Description | |
Metaphor Level | General |
Metaphor Type | Primary |
Experiential Basis |
Source Frame | Eating Roles:eater, eaten_object, eating_x-schema
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Target Frame | Thinking about Roles:thinker, thinking_process, thinking_content
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Mappings:
ideas | <= | food |
thinker | <= | eater |
considering | <= | digesting |
Related Metaphors:
Current Metaphor | ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING |
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Relation Type | is both a source and target subcase of |
Related Metaphor | COGNIZING IS BODILY FUNCTIONING |
Description |
Current Metaphor | ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING |
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Relation Type | is related to |
Related Metaphor | IDEAS ARE FOOD |
Description |
Current Metaphor | ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING |
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Relation Type | is related to |
Related Metaphor | CONSIDERING IS CHEWING |
Description |
Current Metaphor | ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING |
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Relation Type | is related to |
Related Metaphor | ACCEPTING IS SWALLOWING |
Description |
Current Metaphor | ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING |
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Relation Type | is related to |
Related Metaphor | COMMUNICATING IS FEEDING |
Description |
Current Metaphor | ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING |
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Relation Type | is related to |
Related Metaphor | TESTING THE NATURE OF IDEAS IS SMELLING OR TASTING |
Description |
Current Metaphor | ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING |
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Relation Type | is related to |
Related Metaphor | UNDERSTANDING IS DIGESTING |
Description |
Entailments:
Target Entailment | acquired ideas |
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Source Inference | ingested food |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) | IDEAS ARE FOOD |
Examples:
Example Text: | We pitched them the idea and they ate it right up. |
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Example Text: | He's been feeding her lies all these years. |
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Example Text: | This article is hard to digest. |
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Provenance: | Reddy (1979) |
Graph of related metaphors:
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n1 -> n2 [label = "is a perspective on" fontsize="8.0" ]; }
digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="ACCEPTING IS SWALLOWING" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:ACCEPTING_IS_SWALLOWING" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"]; n2 [label="ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:ACQUIRING_IDEAS_IS_EATING" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is an entailment of" fontsize="8.0" color="orange" ]; n3 [label="IDEAS ARE FOOD" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:IDEAS_ARE_FOOD" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];
n3 -> n2 [label = "is a mapping within" fontsize="8.0" color="brown" ]; n4 [label="LEARNING IS GETTING NUTRITIOUS FOOD" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:LEARNING_IS_GETTING_NUTRITIOUS_FOOD" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];
n4 -> n2 [label = "is both a source and target subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n5 [label="UNDERSTANDING IS DIGESTING" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:UNDERSTANDING_IS_DIGESTING" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];
n5 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n6 [label="COGNIZING IS BODILY FUNCTIONING" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:COGNIZING_IS_BODILY_FUNCTIONING" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];
n2 -> n6 [label = "is both a source and target subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ];
n2 -> n3 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n7 [label="CONSIDERING IS CHEWING" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:CONSIDERING_IS_CHEWING" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];
n2 -> n7 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ];
n2 -> n1 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n8 [label="COMMUNICATING IS FEEDING" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:COMMUNICATING_IS_FEEDING" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];
n2 -> n8 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n9 [label="TESTING THE NATURE OF IDEAS IS SMELLING OR TASTING" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:TESTING_THE_NATURE_OF_IDEAS_IS_SMELLING_OR_TASTING" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];
n2 -> n9 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ];
n2 -> n5 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; }
digraph meta4srcgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Body weight" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Body_weight" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Eating" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Eating" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n3 [label="Food" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Food" fontsize="10.0" ];
n3 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n4 [label="Hunger" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Hunger" fontsize="10.0" ];
n4 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n5 [label="Overeating" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Overeating" fontsize="10.0" ];
n5 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n6 [label="Ingestion" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Ingestion" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n6 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n7 [label="Chewing" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Chewing" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n7 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n8 [label="Consume" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Consume" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n8 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ];
n2 -> n3 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ]; }
Entailment | acquired ideas (ingested food, ?, IDEAS ARE FOOD) + |
Example | English (We pitched them the idea and they ate it right up., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) +, English (He's been feeding her lies all these years., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) + and English (This article is hard to digest., ?, ?, Reddy (1979), ?, ?, ?) + |
Has source frame | Frame:Eating + |
Has target frame | Frame:Thinking about + |
Mapping | ideas (food, ?) +, thinker (eater, ?) + and considering (digesting, ?) + |
Metaphor.Alias | ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING (?) + |
Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
Metaphor.Level | General + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Eating + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Thinking about + |
Metaphor.Type | Primary + |
Related metaphor | is both a source and target subcase of (COGNIZING IS BODILY FUNCTIONING, ?) +, is related to (IDEAS ARE FOOD, ?) +, is related to (CONSIDERING IS CHEWING, ?) +, is related to (ACCEPTING IS SWALLOWING, ?) +, is related to (COMMUNICATING IS FEEDING, ?) +, is related to (TESTING THE NATURE OF IDEAS IS SMELLING OR TASTING, ?) + and is related to (UNDERSTANDING IS DIGESTING, ?) + |
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:ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING#Is_example_of + |