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Metaphor system

The idea, developed in the work of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, that metaphorical language appears to relate to an underlying 'system of thought'. In particular, the conceptual system is held in conceptual metaphor theory to be structured by a system of metaphors which work together in order to complement one another and which inherit structure from each other. A good example of this phenomenon is the Event Structure Metaphor.

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