What is a soon-to-be-realized-percept-as-proximal metaphor?

A conventional metaphor in which a percept (such as sound or sight) which is about to be perceived is represented as spatially near.

Here is an example in English:

• Here comes the beep.

• What is a nonvisual-perception-as-spatial metaphor?

Lakoff, G. 1987

• Concept module: soon-to-be-realized-percept-as-proximal 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)
• In bookshelf: Lexicon

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