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Blog 3

When reading the article for a second time, I found that my views didn’t change. I still looked at the windows and doors to be thought of as a perspective change. I still feel that metaphors are meant to help people learn and understand. I can’t help but wonder if the changes that one could witness with the same text comes from the way it is presented. For example, the TED Talk that I wrote about for blog one. After listening and reading it, I got two different things out of it. compared to this assignment, I only noticed certain things, and nothing new the second time I read it. I still believe with what I wrote about. The emotions that metaphors spark are quite powerful, and the use of metaphors for better understanding is quite noticeable throughout the piece.

When reading this piece I noticed that the word apt was being used a lot. Apt means appropriate or suitable in the circumstances. This helped me understand the part of the article where he talks about how people interpret metaphors differently, and that when there is a comparison between two different things it helps direct the understanding of the metaphor to what the writer wants them to see.

When the article started talking about the battle among scholars about whether a “metaphor as category” or “metaphor as mapping”, I ran across ‘inconsequential‘. The article goes into explanation on how the argument is trying to figure out which way to go for metaphorical invention. The argument was then described as inconsequential, which means unimportant or insignificant. this helped me understand if the argument was an intellectual one or one for just bickering sake. The article points out that both are sources for metaphorical invention.

1 Comment

  1. elishaemerson

    It’s okay that you didn’t notice anything new. This indicates that your first read was incredibly thorough. That’s great! It’s interesting how some “arguments” can prove heated inside specific communities–but seem inconsequential in others.

    Keep up the good work.

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