Metaphor:ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING

Name Gloss	ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING
Name Transcription
Aliases	ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING
Description
Metaphor Level	General
Metaphor Type	Primary
Experiential Basis

Source Frame	Eating Roles:eater, eaten_object, eating_x-schema
Target Frame	Thinking about Roles:thinker, thinking_process, thinking_content

Mappings:

ideas	<=	food

thinker	<=	eater

considering	<=	digesting

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor	ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING
Relation Type	is both a source and target subcase of
Related Metaphor	COGNIZING IS BODILY FUNCTIONING
Description

Current Metaphor	ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING
Relation Type	is related to
Related Metaphor	IDEAS ARE FOOD
Description

Current Metaphor	ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING
Relation Type	is related to
Related Metaphor	CONSIDERING IS CHEWING
Description

Current Metaphor	ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING
Relation Type	is related to
Related Metaphor	ACCEPTING IS SWALLOWING
Description

Current Metaphor	ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING
Relation Type	is related to
Related Metaphor	COMMUNICATING IS FEEDING
Description

Current Metaphor	ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING
Relation Type	is related to
Related Metaphor	TESTING THE NATURE OF IDEAS IS SMELLING OR TASTING
Description

Current Metaphor	ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING
Relation Type	is related to
Related Metaphor	UNDERSTANDING IS DIGESTING
Description

Entailments:

Target Entailment	acquired ideas
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.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:
Annotation:
Comments:

Example Text:	He's been feeding her lies all these years.
Transcription:
English Translation:
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Annotation:
Comments:

Example Text:	This article is hard to digest.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:	Reddy (1979)
Annotation:
Comments:

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Graph of related metaphors:

• Target frame
• Metaphors
• Source frame

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n1 -> n2 [label = "is a perspective on" fontsize="8.0" ]; }

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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" ]; }

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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" ]; }