Event Structure

Roles: state, change, cause, action, event, purpose, means, difficulty, progress

The general structure of events, actions, states, and causation as conceptualized through spatial and force-dynamic metaphors. Lakoff and Johnson’s Event Structure metaphor system maps states to locations, changes to movements, causes to forces, actions to self-propelled motions, purposes to destinations, means to paths, and difficulties to impediments. As a target domain it covers any situation where we talk about what happens, why, and how — from personal activity to institutional processes to abstract change. It is broader than any single experiential domain (mental, social, financial) because the same event-structural logic applies across all of them.

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