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===Conservative metaphors=== | ===Conservative metaphors=== | ||
| + | The most important is '''strength metaphor''': | ||
| + | *Good | ||
| + | **Being good is being upright | ||
| + | **Morality is strength | ||
| + | *Bad | ||
| + | **Being bad is being low | ||
| + | **Doing Evil is falling | ||
| + | ** Evil is a force (Conservatives tend to see evil as something done by somebody, and this relate to the [[FFFF]] mode of somthing that try to harm us. [[User:WinSysop|WinSysop]] 13:08, 15 August 2012 (IDT)) | ||
Revision as of 04:08, 15 August 2012
Original paper[1].
Summery
Lakoff set several moral metaphors used liberals and conservatives.
Conservative metaphors
The most important is strength metaphor:
- Good
- Being good is being upright
- Morality is strength
- Bad