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

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

Definition
	A conventional metaphor in English in which nonvisual perception is represented as spatially structured, such that there is a representation of
	activation as motion and percepts as distal or proximal.

Kinds
	Here are some kinds of nonvisual-perception-as-spatial metaphors:
	What is an activation-as-motion metaphor? What is a realized-percept-as-distal metaphor? What is a soon-to-be-realized-percept-as-proximal metaphor?

Generic
	A nonvisual-perception-as-spatial metaphor is a kind of
	What is a metaphor for perception?

Source
	Lakoff, G. 1987

Context for this page:

Concept module: nonvisual-perception-as-spatial 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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