... tool in constant use. What is remarkable is the ease with which we make unconscious and automatic use of metaphor. It is also not in anyway limited to poets or abstract thinkers, as Lackoff and Turner state in their book, "More than Cool Reason", metaphor, "is accessible to everyone: as children, we automatically, as a matter of course, acquire a mastery of everyday metaphor." Lackoff and Turner go on to say metaphor is conventional, in that it is an essential part of normal thought and language. Thirdly, they claim, metaphor helps "us to understand ourselves and our world in ways that no other modes of thought can" and that metaphor is "indispensable not only to our imagination but also to our reason." That is to say, without metaphor as part of our language, we would not cogitate or rationalise in the same manner as we do without it. The use ...

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