Gardening: tuinieren als metafoor

Iets academisch: gardening as metaphor of writing:

  

    In contrast to the decorative view, Lakoff and Johnson argue that metaphor plays a central role in thought, and is indispensable to both thought and lan- guage. They see great significance in conventional metaphors, which they find to be ubiquitous in language. They also stress the importance of semantically related groups of metaphors, arguing that they are evidence of conceptual net- works. These ideas help to explain metaphors like those found in the writers interviewed by Tomlinson. Using Conceptual Metaphor Theory, it can be ar- gued that writers talk of writing in terms of cooking or gardening because they think of it like that. The mental structure of cooking or gardening that a writer holds internally underlies their mental structure for writing. It is thus natural that we find several semantically related metaphors in their talk, which is an expression of underlying thought patter

 

 Deignan, Alice. 2005. Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins (Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research no. 6)