In their first book, Metaphors We Live By (1980), Lakoff and Johnson put forward the view that conventional metaphors – or dead metaphors, as they are commonly called in English – are very much alive. The very title of the book carried the suggestion that our daily existence is structured metaphorically: that the worn-out phrases we commonly use are symptoms of a vast system of unconscious meta...

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This paper compares the "radial category" of image schemas derived for the polysemous word "over", by Brugman and Lakoff, 1987, with the lexical networks for "over" derived by the author, from Roget's International Thesaurus, 3rd Edition, and The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition.

The study of concepts in psychology has historically had little to say about the possible influence of metaphor on mental representation. This silence is not terribly surprising given the long-standing view that metaphor is an ornamental, even deviant, form of language bearing no relation to how people actually conceptualize of objects, individuals, events, and abstract ideas. But in the last 2...

CD14 participates in the host innate inflammatory response to bacterial LPS obtained from Escherichia coli and other Gram-negative bacteria. Evidence from several laboratories suggests that different regions of the amino-terminal portion of the molecule may be involved in LPS binding. In this report a series of single-residue serine replacement and charge reversal mutations were generated to fu...