In addition to Lakoff and Johnson's assertion that a metaphorical framework influences how concepts are understood, a related though contentious literature argues that physical states directly influence how abstract metaphors are understood.
Finally, we considered that cognitive impairments commonly seen in schizophrenia [ 51- 53] could interfere in understanding abstract metaphors and retaining information in the ACT condition, thereby moderating outcomes.
It is an abstract, powerful metaphor, and it was brave of the Germans to place the memorial so much at the centre of their new/old capital.
Abstract language, metaphors like "cover third base," even "knock-knock" jokes, were confusing and frustrating.
Bonnefoy ponders language, too; he dreams of recovering a time and place, perhaps pre-Latin, when word and thing are unified, not abstracted into metaphor.
They think in images, they find the concrete word for the abstract idea, metaphors take flight in great skeins of verse and prose whether it's an earl on how to prepare for battle, or Falstaff on drinking sack.The great joy of this production is that the actors relish just this.
The songs composed during that time were about the various abstract "monsters"—metaphors for her paranoias that she faced during the tour.
Before laying the subject to rest for another four years, though, let's put abstract reasoning and metaphor-mongering aside and go all empirical, via a final visit to "How Soccer Explains The World".
Cross-sections of penises going into vaginas, floral imagery, ice cream, extreme closeups of hands touching, tasteful nudes, nearly abstract characters, cutting metaphors.
"Design" is also a metaphor for abstract labor of all kinds; it exemplifies work that is creative, innovative, problem-solving, and reliant on judgment rather than rules.
