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Lakoff And Johnson's Metaphors Live-By

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Reading has an interesting place in society. There are people who love it and people who hate it. It is a required skill for almost anything you do. It is an exercise that works the mind. There are a ton of metaphors one can make up about reading. This essay is only going to focus on one; reading is a plate of dinner. Its full of all different groups. School is like the veggies. You don’t always want to eat them but they are the best for you. The main course is your favorite to eat and it is not bad for you but not great for a persons diet. The dessert is the reading one will do over their whole life. Everyone likes dessert the young and the old. This essay is going to dive into the idea of analyzing metaphors. Its going to be broken down …show more content…

What they are hiding and missing. First though it is important to take a look at a book that was the ideas that caused taking a deeper look at metaphors. The book Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson has a main goal of trying to implore the reader take notice of how metaphors are actually lived through their daily life. Metaphors are so commonly used in life that people often do not even recognize them in daily communication. Lakoff and Johnson agrees when they wrote “It is far more difficult to see that there is anything hidden by the metaphor or even to see that there is a metaphor used here. This is so much the conventional way of thinking about language that it is sometimes hard to imagine that it might not really fit.”(Lakoff and Johnson 11). Taking a deeper look at metaphors is important to understanding the complexity of the English language. The first step in analyzing a metaphor is to recognize the hard ones. Once you can recognize and …show more content…

Not every metaphor is perfect it will always have flaws and won’t add up. The metaphor reading is a plate of dinner. It obviously hides the fact that reading is not food. You cannot eat a plate of books. The parts of dinner is what the metaphor focus on. One major flaw with the vegetables is that It hides the fact that some people enjoy reading in school. Not everyone hates being required to read the material the school deems fit. As much as students might hate reading in school it opens students up. It allows them to be exposed to text that they wouldn’t usually read. It also brings students together to talk about intellectual readings and discus them to further them as a student. It also misses that some people don’t like to read out of school so maybe the main portion of their reading does take place in school. A lot of people if not forced to read won’t ever pick up on topics they may actually like. In every young readers life it is hard just learning how to read. It also gets to a point in high school where a lot of students pick up interests in other things besides reading. This causes the amount of reading students might be doing to go down. It also misses that even though some food is bad for you their really is no reading that is bad for you. Reading of any kind is beneficial to the mind. It was easy to connect reading to a metaphor and easy to see

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