Life Course

Roles: person, life-stage, purpose, choice, difficulty, progress, setback, death

The trajectory of a human life from birth to death, encompassing the choices, stages, difficulties, relationships, and purposes that constitute a biography. As a target domain, life is one of the most heavily metaphorized concepts in any language — we understand it through journeys, stories, games, battles, and seasons because its full span exceeds any single experience.

As Source Frame (7)

• Active Is Alive → event-structure
• Beliefs Are Beings with a Life Cycle → mental-experience
• Coming of Age → organizational-behavior, software-engineering
• Existence Is Life → event-structure
• Hope Is a Child → mental-experience
• Ideas Are Children → intellectual-inquiry
• Theories Are Beings with Life Cycles → intellectual-inquiry

Applied To This Frame (8)

• journeys → Death Is Departure
• containers → Life Is a Container
• gambling → Life Is a Gambling Game
• journeys → Life Is a Journey
• performance → Life Is a Performance
• narrative → Life Is a Story
• horticulture → People Are Plants
• agriculture → Sow Wild Oats