Contents

Preface ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.IX

Acknowledgments¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­XI

1.  Concepts We Live By ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ 3

2.  The Systematicity of Metaphorical Concepts¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­..7

3. Metaphorical Systematicity: Highlighting and Hiding¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.10

4. Orientational Metaphors¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­14

5. Metaphor and Cultural Coherence¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.22

6. Ontological Metaphors¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­25

7. Personification¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­33

8. Metonymy¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.35

9. Challenges to Metaphorical Coherence¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.41

10. Some Further Examples¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.46

11. The Partial Nature of Metaphorical Structuring¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.52

12. How Is Our Conceptual System Grounded?¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­..56

13. The Grounding of Structural Metaphors¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.61

14. Causation: Partly Emergent and Partly Metaphorical¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­..69

15. The Coherent Structuring of Experience¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­..77

16. Metaphorical Coherence¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­7

17. Complex Coherences across Metaphors           97

18. Some Consequences for Theories of Conceptual Structure       106

19. Definition and Understanding                    115

20. How Metaphor Can Give Meaning to Form       126

21. New Meaning                               139

22. The Creation of Similarity                        147

23. Metaphor, Truth, and Action                    156

24. Truth                                           159

25. The Myths of Objectivism and Subjectivism       185

26. The Myth of Objectivism in Western Philosophy and Linguistics    195

27. How Metaphor Reveals the Limitations of the Myth of Objectivism  210

28. Some Inadequacies of the Myth of Subjectivism         223

29. The Experientialist Alternative: Giving New Meaning to the Old Myths  226

30. Understanding                                 229

Afterword                                         239

References                                        241