What is a realized-percept-as-distal metaphor?

What is a realized-percept-as-distal metaphor?

Definition
	A conventional metaphor in which a percept (such as sound or sight) which has been perceived is represented as spatially distant.

Generic
	A realized-percept-as-distal metaphor is a kind of
	What is a nonvisual-perception-as-spatial metaphor?

Source
	Lakoff, G. 1987

Context for this page:

Concept module: realized-percept-as-distal metaphor
In modular book: Metaphors in English, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H. Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
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