Nonlinguistic Realizations of Conceptual Metaphors

As has been emphasized so far, metaphors are conceptual in nature. It was shown, furthermore, that conceptual metaphors have linguistic manifestations. We have called these manifestations metaphorical linguistic expressions. But if metaphors are primarily conceptual, then they must manifest themselves in other than linguistic ways. That is, if the conceptual system that governs how we experience the world, how we think, and how we act is partly metaphorical, then the (conceptual) metaphors must be realized not only in language but also in many other areas of human experience. These manifestations are called the realization of conceptual metaphors.

Cognitive science · Conceptual framework · Conceptual metaphor · Conceptual system · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphor · Realization (probability) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology