Edit Metaphor: Metaphor:STATUS IS VERTICALITY
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Facts about "STATUS IS VERTICALITY"
| Entailment | An increase in status (Higher point(s) along a vertical scale, Scalar, HIGH STATUS IS UP) + and A decrease in status (Lower point(s) along a vertical scale, Scalar, LOW STATUS IS DOWN) + |
| Example | English (He has a lofty position., ?, ?, Metaphors We Live By (16), ?, ?, ?) +, English (She fell in status., ?, ?, Metaphors We Live By (16), ?, ?, ?) +, English (He's a social climber., ?, ?, Grady 1998:114, ?, ?, ?) + and English (I reached a plateau in my career some years back., ?, ?, Grady 1998:114, ?, ?, ?) + |
| Has source frame | Frame:Verticality + |
| Has target frame | Frame:Status + |
| Metaphor.Alias | STATUS IS VERTICALITY (Metaphors We Live By) + and HIGH STATUS IS UP (?) + |
| Metaphor.Experiential basis | Status is correlated with social power and physical power is correlated with verticality. + |
| Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
| Metaphor.Level | General + |
| Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Verticality + |
| Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Status + |
| Metaphor.Type | Primary + |
| Related metaphor | is in some target relation to (CONTROL IS VERTICALITY, Target conflation?) +, makes use of (CHANGE OF STATE IS CHANGE OF LOCATION, An increase or decrease of status is upwards or downwards movement.) + and makes use of (STATES ARE LOCATIONS, Status is location on a vertical scale.) + |
| 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:STATUS IS VERTICALITY#Is_example_of + |
