Literature/2011/Steen


 * http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7349/is_2_28/ai_n57156217/

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 * Knowledge management has recently hit on the metaphorical underpinnings of knowledge, as is attested by this special issue, but this discovery is in fact just another instantiation of the general cognitive-scientific interest in the metaphorical structure of many abstract concepts in a wide range of socio-cultural domains, including management and organization, education and science, politics and government and health and care (Ortony, 1979/1993; Gibbs, 2008). This general attention to metaphor in thought is partly due to the cognitive-linguistic postulation of conventional metaphorical structures in all cognition by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) ....