Metaphor:SOCIAL GROUP IS A FABRIC
Aliases | SOCIAL GROUP IS A TEXTILE |
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Description | |
Metaphor Level | |
Metaphor Type | |
Experiential Basis |
Source Frame | Textile Roles:textile_whole, fibers, textile_creation_action, textile_creator
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Target Frame | Social group Roles:social_group_whole, member, members, member_relation, defining_properties, group_decision_making
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Mappings:
social_group_whole | <= | textile_whole |
member_relation | <= | fibers |
Related Metaphors:
Current Metaphor | SOCIAL GROUP IS A FABRIC
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Relation Type | |
Related Metaphor | [[Metaphor:|]] |
Description |
Entailments:
Target Entailment | the strength of social relations |
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Source Inference | the strength of the fibers |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Target Entailment | the strength/integrity of the social group as a whole depends on the strength/integrity of the relations between social members |
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Source Inference | The strength/integrity of the textile as a whole is dependent on the strength/integrity of the individual fibers. |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Target Entailment | processes that affect the strength of the social group |
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Source Inference | processes that affect the strength of the fabric |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Examples:
Example Text: | Cop scandals fray the social fabric. |
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Provenance: | headline, philly.com, August 31, 1995. http://articles.philly.com/1995-08-31/news/25708713_1_fuhrman-tapes-drug-dealers-police-force. Accessed 12/3/12 |
Example Text: | Thus, we must reweave the torn fabric of rural American with thread strong enough to withstand the inevitable ravages of time. |
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Provenance: | From "Reweaving the Fabric of Rural America", by John Ikerd. http://web.missouri.edu/ikerdj/papers/PASA%20-%20Food%20is%20Common%20Thread.htm. Accessed 12/3/12 |
Graph of related metaphors:
digraph meta4tggrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Community" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Community" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Social group" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Social_group" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="Disorderly group" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Disorderly_group" fontsize="10.0" ];
n3 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n4 [label="Economic status" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Economic_status" fontsize="10.0" ];
n4 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n5 [label="Family" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Family" fontsize="10.0" ];
n5 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n6 [label="Organization" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Organization" fontsize="10.0" ];
n6 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n7 [label="Social status" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Social_status" fontsize="10.0" ];
n7 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n8 [label="Society" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Society" fontsize="10.0" ];
n8 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n9 [label="Group" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Group" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n9 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }
digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" }
digraph meta4srcgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Textile" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Textile" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ]; n2 [label="Physical structure" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Physical_structure" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="Create object" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Create_object" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n3 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }
Entailment | the strength of social relations (the strength of the fibers, ?, ?) +, the strength/integrity of the social group as a whole depends on the strength/integrity of the relations between social members (The strength/integrity of the textile as a whole is dependent on the strength/integrity of the individual fibers., ?, ?) + and processes that affect the strength of the social group (processes that affect the strength of the fabric, ?, ?) + |
Example | English (Cop scandals fray the social fabric., ?, ?, headline, philly.com, August 31, 1995. http://articles.philly.com/1995-08-31/news/25708713_1_fuhrman-tapes-drug-dealers-police-force. Accessed 12/3/12, ?, ?, ?) + and English (Thus, we must reweave the torn fabric of rural American with thread strong enough to withstand the inevitable ravages of time., ?, ?, From "Reweaving the Fabric of Rural America", by John Ikerd. http://web.missouri.edu/ikerdj/papers/PASA%20-%20Food%20is%20Common%20Thread.htm. Accessed 12/3/12, ?, ?, ?) + |
Has source frame | Frame:Textile + |
Has target frame | Frame:Social group + |
Mapping | social_group_whole (textile_whole, ?) + and member_relation (fibers, ?) + |
Metaphor.Alias | SOCIAL GROUP IS A TEXTILE (?) + |
Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Textile + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Social group + |
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:SOCIAL GROUP IS A FABRIC#Is_example_of + |