Metaphor:ELECTION IS WAR
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Description | |
Metaphor Level | Specific |
Metaphor Type | Composed/complex |
Experiential Basis |
Source Frame | War Roles:battlefield, enemy_attack, generals, army, enemy_combatants, weapons, war_strategies, civilians, victory, enemy_conquest, fighting, side1, side2
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Target Frame | Election Roles:voter, candidate1, candidate2, office, outcome, voting_event, institution, ballot, ballot_counting
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Mappings:
candidate1 | <= | War.side1 |
candidate2 | <= | War.side2 |
Related Metaphors:
Entailments:
Target Entailment | Only one candidate can win the office |
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Source Inference | Only one side can win the war |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Examples:
Example Text: | ...the fight for the White House is being waged on intensely local terrain... |
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Provenance: | http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/us/politics/in-final-days-of-presidential-election-fighting-county-by-county.html?pagewanted=all |
Example Text: | the war for the presidency is nearly over |
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Example Text: | Mr. Romney will likely fight hard in the state, given his family ties, but he has an uphill battle. |
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Provenance: | elections.nytimes.com/2012/ratings/electoral-map |
Example Text: | Both sides girded for battle, as they knew the general election would be a hard-won fight. |
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Example Text: | The underdog and his advisers plotted how best to overpower the incumbent. |
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Example Text: | Campaign Craft: The Strategies, Tactics, and Art of Political Campaign Management |
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Provenance: | 2001, Daniel M. Shea (book) |
Graph of related metaphors:
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n1 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n3 [label="Voting" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Voting" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n3 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n4 [label="Political competition" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Political_competition" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n4 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n5 [label="Debating" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Debating" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n5 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }
digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="LOSING AN ELECTION IS LOSING A WAR" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:LOSING_AN_ELECTION_IS_LOSING_A_WAR" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"]; n2 [label="ELECTION IS WAR" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:ELECTION_IS_WAR" 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="WINNING AN ELECTION IS WINNING A WAR" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:WINNING_AN_ELECTION_IS_WINNING_A_WAR" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];
n3 -> n2 [label = "is an entailment of" fontsize="8.0" color="orange" ]; }
digraph meta4srcgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="War" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:War" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ]; n2 [label="Physical competition" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Physical_competition" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="Physical combat" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Physical_combat" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n3 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }
Entailment | Only one candidate can win the office (Only one side can win the war, ?, ?) + |
Example | English (...the fight for the White House is being waged on intensely local terrain..., ?, ?, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/us/politics/in-final-days-of-presidential-election-fighting-county-by-county.html?pagewanted=all, ?, ?, ?) +, English (the war for the presidency is nearly over, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) +, English (Mr. Romney will likely fight hard in the state, given his family ties, but he has an uphill battle., ?, ?, elections.nytimes.com/2012/ratings/electoral-map, ?, ?, ?) +, English (Both sides girded for battle, as they knew the general election would be a hard-won fight., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) +, English (The underdog and his advisers plotted how best to overpower the incumbent., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) + and English (Campaign Craft: The Strategies, Tactics, and Art of Political Campaign Management, ?, ?, 2001, Daniel M. Shea (book), ?, ?, ?) + |
Has source frame | Frame:War + |
Has target frame | Frame:Election + |
Mapping | candidate1 (War.side1, ?) + and candidate2 (War.side2, ?) + |
Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
Metaphor.Level | Specific + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:War + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Election + |
Metaphor.Type | Composed/complex + |
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:ELECTION IS WAR#Is_example_of + |