Is metaphor just a matter of poetics and style? Cognitive Linguistics claims that we “live by metaphors”1, that metaphorical, and, closely related, metonymic processes are amajor device of human conceptualisation. Largely unnoticed, these processes are pervasively and systematically at work in everyday language: clocks have hands, amarriage may be dead, in as time goes by and Christmas is coming, TIME is viewed as an OBJECT which moves through space, in the baby arrived, I went throu...
