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Target Role: word_form

Source Role: container

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Target Role: word_meaning

Source Role: contents

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Current Metaphor: WORDS ARE CONTAINERS

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Current Metaphor: WORDS ARE CONTAINERS

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Target Entailment: ability to understand word meaning

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Target Entailment: amount of meaning

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Text: That remark is completely impenetrable.


Provenance: Reddy (1979)

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Text: Whatever Emily meant, it's likely to be locked up in that cryptic little verse forever.


Provenance: Reddy (1979)

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Text: He writes sentences in such a way as to seal up the meaning in them.


Provenance: Reddy (1979)

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Entailmentability to understand word meaning (ability to access contents, ?, ?) + and amount of meaning (amount of contents, ?, ?) +
ExampleEnglish (That remark is completely impenetrable., ?, ?, Reddy (1979), ?, ?, ?) +, English (Whatever Emily meant, it's likely to be locked up in that cryptic little verse forever., ?, ?, Reddy (1979), ?, ?, ?) + and English (He writes sentences in such a way as to seal up the meaning in them., ?, ?, Reddy (1979), ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Containing +
Has target frameFrame:Word +
Mappingword_form (container, ?) + and word_meaning (contents, ?) +
Metaphor.AliasWORDS ARE CONTAINERS FOR MEANING (?) + and LINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS ARE CONTAINERS (FOR MEANING) (?) +
Metaphor.Investigated forEnglish +
Metaphor.LevelGeneral +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Containing +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Word +
Metaphor.TypePrimary +
Related metaphoris a mapping within (COMMUNICATING IS OBJECT TRANSFER, ?) + and is related to (IDEAS ARE OBJECTS, ?) +
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:WORDS ARE CONTAINERS#Is_example_of +