We experience the onset of love, in which lovers are no longer in control of their emotions, as falling through physical space. When we use these metaphors we experience love as a container that encloses the lover. “The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another” (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980, p. According to Lakoff and Johnson, ‘ fell in love’ expresses the conceptual metaphors love is a container and control is up / loss of control is down. “Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature” (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980, p. Lakoff and Johnson argue that metaphorical expressions in language express underlying conceptual metaphors, in which the metaphor topic is experienced as the vehicle. In 1980 George Lakoff and Mark Johnson proposed an approach to metaphor radically different from those described in Chapters 2 and 3. While he was in school he fell in love, but the relationship didn’t go anywhere and it quickly cooled off – it was a complete dead-end.
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