What Are Conceptual Metaphors?
<p>“Personality” is a complex idea made up of emotions, thoughts, behaviors and more. Temperature is a direct felt experience — we know what it’s like to be hot or cold. In order to “get a hold of” that complex idea of “Personality”, we use the idea of heat and cold.</p>
<p>We say “he’s a bit of a cold person” to understand a person’s emotions, behavior, and temperament. This holds true whether he’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>
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