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Primary metaphor is a term named by Joseph Grady for the basic connection that exist between subjective or abstract experiences such as good and concrete experiences such as up. These two concepts usually correlate in experience, and form the primary metaphor good is up. Likewise there is a correlation between knowing and seeing forming the primary metaphor knowing is seeing. Two such primary metaphors are used when understanding an expression such as glass ceiling.

An example of a primary metaphor could be that of Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', where life is depicted as being similar to a theater. Therefore, 'LIFE' relates to a conceptual experience, and 'THEATER' represents a concrete experience. Thus forming the primary metaphor; LIFE IS THEATER.

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Primary metaphor

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Primary metaphor is a term named by Joseph Grady for the basic connection that exist between subjective or abstract experiences such as good and concrete...

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Conceptual metaphor

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In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another...

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Rainbow nation

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hope and a bright future. The secondary metaphor the rainbow allows is more political. Unlike the primary metaphor, the room for different cultural interpretations...

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Windowing

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system, a graphical user interface (GUI) which implements windows as a primary metaphor In signal processing, the application of a window function to a signal...

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Clitoris

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to observe the paradox that on the one hand, the female body is the primary metaphor for sexuality, its use saturates advertising, art, and the mainstream...

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Metonymy

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relations of metonymy. Both metonymy and metaphor involve the substitution of one term for another. In metaphor, this substitution is based on some specific...

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Metaphor in philosophy

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Metaphor, the description of one thing as something else, has become of interest in recent decades to both analytic philosophy and continental philosophy...

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Whedon cited the Hellmouth and "high school as hell" as one of the primary metaphors in creating the series. Most of Buffy was shot on location in Los...

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Sefirot

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gives Kabbalah one of its two central metaphors in describing divinity, alongside the other Ohr (light) metaphor. However, Kabbalah repeatedly stresses...

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Thai Forest Tradition

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the teaching etiquette within the Forest Tradition. Ajahn Maha Bua's primary metaphor for Buddhist practice was that it was a battle against the defilements...

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Metaphor Computer Systems

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founded Metaphor in 1982 after leaving Xerox PARC. By 1987, the company had an annual revenue of $39.7 million. In 1991, IBM, one of its primary customers...

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Sikhism

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this is considered anathema in Sikhism. The Granth uses the beloved/lover metaphor for the relation of the self to God. God is the beloved and the devo tee...

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Color terminology for race

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Stoddard's map of the distribution of the five primary races of the world (1920)....

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Anton syndrome

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It is mentioned frequently as "Anton's Blindness" as one of the primary metaphors in Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing. In Lars von Trier's film Dogville...

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Sringara

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man and a woman. The primary emotion thus generated is Sringara. The romantic relationship between lover and beloved is a metaphor for the relationship...

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Myopia

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People with high myopia are more likely to have retinal detachments and primary open angle glaucoma. They are also more likely to experience floaters,...

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Keith Hennessy

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addresses current experience, political, social, mystical, through the primary metaphor of a total solar eclipse. Featuring Brett Womack, Emily Leap, Max,...

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Synecdoche

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four master tropes, or figures of speech, are metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. Burke's primary concern with these four master tropes is more...

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Pamela Burton

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timeless oak grassland. The Santa Monica Public Library uses water as its primary metaphor and includes shallow pools in the middle of the courtyard to provide...

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Disease

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than the language of physical aggression. Some metaphors are disease-specific. Slavery is a common metaphor for addictions: The alcoholic is enslaved by...

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Heart

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societies towards the heart, ancient Greeks are considered to have been the primary seat of scientific understanding of the heart in the ancient world. Aristotle...

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Three crows

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Three crows are a symbol or metaphor in several traditions. Crows, and especially ravens, often feature in European legends or mythology as portents or...

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George Lakoff

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conceptual metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena. The conceptual metaphor thesis, introduced in his and Mark Johnson's 1980 book Metaphors We Live...

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Factory model school

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teaching and schooling is risk-averse, and because we argue based on metaphors: schools as factories, teachers as armies, schools as malls... knowing...

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New World

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independence following the American Revolutionary War. The second sense is now primary in English: ... However, the term is open to uncertainties: ..." Mundus...

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