Metaphor:ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS ARE VEHICLES

Name Gloss	ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS ARE VEHICLES
Name Transcription
Aliases	ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS ARE VEHICLES (Metaphors We Live By)
Description
Metaphor Level	General
Metaphor Type	Entailed
Experiential Basis

Source Frame	Vehicle Roles:vehicle, vehicle_passengers, vehicle_freight, vehicle_driver, vehicle_location
Target Frame	Romantic_relationship Roles:

Mappings:

relationship	<=	vehicle

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor	ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS ARE VEHICLES
Relation Type	is in some source relation to
Related Metaphor	ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP IS A JOURNEY
Description	ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP IS A JOURNEY have a mapping relationship<=vehicle, and this mapping yields its own metaphor.

Current Metaphor	ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS ARE VEHICLES
Relation Type	is a source subcase of
Related Metaphor	RELATIONSHIPS ARE CONTAINERS
Description

Entailments:

Target Entailment	Romantic relationship encountering difficulties
Source Inference	Vehicle encountering obstacles
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s)	ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP ENCOUNTERING DIFFICULTIES IS A VEHICLE ENCOUNTERING OBSTACLES

Examples:

Example Text:	Our relationship is veering off-course.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:	Elise
Annotation:
Comments:

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Graph of related metaphors:

• Target frame
• Metaphors
• Source frame

digraph meta4tggrph { rankdir="BT" }

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n1 -> n2 [label = "is an entailment of" fontsize="8.0" color="orange" ]; n3 [label="ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP IS A JOURNEY" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:ROMANTIC_RELATIONSHIP_IS_A_JOURNEY" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n2 -> n3 [label = "is in some source relation to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n4 [label="RELATIONSHIPS ARE CONTAINERS" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:RELATIONSHIPS_ARE_CONTAINERS" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n2 -> n4 [label = "is a source subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

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

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

n4 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n5 [label="Vehicular motion" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Vehicular_motion" fontsize="10.0" ];

n5 -> n2 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ]; n6 [label="Machine" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Machine" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n6 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n7 [label="Containing" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Containing" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n7 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ];

n2 -> n5 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n8 [label="Mode of transportation" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Mode_of_transportation" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n8 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }