What Are Conceptual Metaphors?

<p>&ldquo;Personality&rdquo; is a complex idea made up of emotions, thoughts, behaviors and more. Temperature is a direct felt experience &mdash; we know what it&rsquo;s like to be hot or cold. In order to &ldquo;get a hold of&rdquo; that complex idea of &ldquo;Personality&rdquo;, we use the idea of heat and cold.</p> <p>We say &ldquo;he&rsquo;s a bit of a cold person&rdquo; to understand a person&rsquo;s emotions, behavior, and temperament. This holds true whether he&rsquo;s in antarctica or in the Sahara.</p> <p>There are thousands of these conceptual metaphors (which give rise to thousands of expressions) and we will look at a few below.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@matt.flownotes/what-are-conceptual-metaphors-9ce9b8f633d7"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>