Metaphors We Live By

We define the metaphor, the metaphor living in George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, as follows. "The essence of the metaphor is to understand and experience different forms" (5). The obvious focus of the metaphor of our lives and the idea that this article is going to be detailed is the concept of the suggested heading. We live in some dominant metaphor. Some of the most common concepts in our species, culture, and language are about not only talking in metaphorical words but also thinking.

We know from neuroscience that most ideas are unconsciously realized by neural circuits. Mark Johnson and I, in our metaphors, most unconscious thinking is figurative and we often show that we come to our lives based on these metaphor. A simple example is to understand time as a resource like money that you can see in the expression of time saving, time wasted, budgeting time, and time spent watching friends. Many of us are concerned about saving time, wasting time and trying to save time. In addition to looking at the metaphor as reality, we also act on the metaphor - indeed, many of our social and commercial reality consists of these metaphor. Considering the human brain, figurative life is normal and may be inevitable

The word "metaphor" comes from the Greek word "assignment" or "assignment or leap". Rakov and Johnson explain that in the metaphor of our lives, we experienced the world around us through a metaphor. Indeed, as the title of their book shows, we rely on these metaphors to live. But what if we become a metaphor of a life that is not good for us either personally or professionally? If we want to change some aspects of our lives, how important is it to understand the metaphor of building our everyday experience?

Now, our classic metaphor changes the understanding of the metaphor and its role in language and thought. The author explains that the metaphor is the basic mechanism of the mind. It allows us to provide an understanding of other countless topics using an understanding of physical and social experiences. These metaphors constitute the most fundamental understanding of our experience, so they are "the metaphor that we live" - ​​the metaphor can shape our perception and behavior, but we realize not.

A conceptual metaphor is seen in the language of our daily life. The conceptual metaphor not only shapes our communication but also forms our way of thinking and behavior. In George Lakov and Mark Johnson's book "The Metaphor of Our Life" (1980), we are seeing how everyday words are hidden. An example of a conceptual metaphor commonly used is "argument is war". This metaphor forms our language so that we consider the debate to be a war or a victory. It is not uncommon to hear someone say "he won the argument" or "I attacked every weakness in his argument." The way of discussion is believed to be formed by a metaphor of this argument, a battle that must be won with war. Although controversy can be seen in ways other than battle, we use this concept to shape the way of recognition and discussion of discussion.