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Nov 2017
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Episode 26: Artists Create New Metaphors...

DR MARK STAFF BRANDL
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My Artecdote this episode is the an explanation of my assertion that "Artists Create New Metaphors to Live By." Under the inspiration of Lakoff, Johnson and Turner's Cognitive Metaphor Theory, I describe my assertion that artists create for themselves new metaphors to live by, by creating new metaphors to create with, which viewers can then also use to think with and live by. This I refer to as artists' metaphor(m)s or central tropes.

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