When I was a student I would have said I had a passion for re-wilding, back then a little known discussion, it now has much more traction and is in the forefront of public discussion. Having sort-of kept up with articles about re-introducing wolves, I decided (triggered largely as a result of this post by Under Western Skies) to research more and re-evaluate my passive, sort-of interest and it has reignited my passion (big time!).
(of a place or region) uninhabited, uncultivated, or inhospitable.
When I was a student I remember distinctly writing about how living on a hillside and walking to school in winter felt "wild" to me. Winter in the north east of England can be harsh and unforgiving (ironically had the landscape been a natural one where I grew up there probably would have been a forest to keep the winter winds at bay).
The term wild can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people, but if we look at wild in terms of the naturalness of a place, yes the British landscape maybe windswept, bleak, breathtakingly beautiful, but wild it is not.
There is barely a scrap of dirt on our little rock untouched by the hand of man, centuries of farming, hunting and deforestation have left our environment battered and scarred. Beautiful scars yes, but not natural places.
Much of the UKs lowland landscape is farmland interspersed by stands of woodland and hedgerows.
Consider it like this… there are 65.6 million people in the UK, that's a lot for our small islands to handle and we have been here in some form or another for about twelve thousand years. For a long time a small population existed, then came permanent settlements, cultivation, mass deforestation and population increase. And not too long ago, we had a thirst for fur and a distaste for predators and a blatant disregard for ecological balance.
William Blake's famous Hymn Jerusalem describes England as a "green and pleasant land" and it is. Despite most of our population living in urban areas, only 6.8% of the UKs land mass is classified as urban, and that includes gardens and greenspace, so in reality the built environment is even less than that. However, that does not mean that the land is not used.
The root of our manicured and heavily managed out-doors is in our ecology, a key concept is that of Trophic Cascades, basically "trophic" means levels of organisation in an ecosystem, remember learning about food chains and webs? A trophic cascade is the idea that if you remove predators from an ecosystem then all of the levels underneath (prey animals, plants, insects, microorganisms etc.) are affected. Generally when a predator is removed, their prey species population explodes, thus negatively affecting the species at lower levels, examples of this include wolves in Yellowstone (see below) and in Sea Otters in the pacific north west of North America when they were almost hunted to extinction in the early 1900s, causing the Sea Urchin population to explode and decimate Kelp forests.
Basically the UK has very few top predators left, and no large carnivores, therefore an abundance of grazers (and of course livestock farming and invasive species) and relatively tree-less landscape.
Grazers are largely responsible for the appearance of the uplands.
To use an outdated term the natural "climax community" or steady-state ecosystem (i.e. if all human interference disappeared what our lands would revert back to over time) of much of the UK is forest yet only 13% of the land remains so, making it one of the least wooded areas in Europe. And much of this woodland is managed. Added to this a staggering 71% (17.2 million hectares) of our land area is farmed.
Take the Lake District as an example, many consider it to be the jewel in the crown of England, but it's a landscape carved out almost entirely by human activity. To the untrained (and perhaps more urban-familiar) eye it may look almost as wild as you can get on our little islands (that honour is probably best bestowed on the highlands of Scotland) in actual fact it's a hive of human-landscape interaction, from sheep grazing, to slate mining, to managed forestry.
Re-wilding is a subject a long debated subject in the UK. To re-wild an area of land is to restore it to its natural uncultivated state and in many ways it is a concept that is completely unrealistic for the UK if you take that definition in its simplest form.
We simply cannot do that if we still expect 65.6 million (and counting!) people to still live here, but we can (and this is where the term is utilised more widely) return some areas of land to a (relatively) natural state, and in fact conservation programmes have been doing this for years. The term is also used widely when debating the reintroduction of wild animals that were made locally extinct by persecution or competition from humans. None of these capture the imagination quite like the reintroduction of large carnivores like wolves, lynx and bears.
In the UK there are many charities and projects campaigning and implementing just that. Like the charity Rewilding Britain set up in the wake of the publication of Journalist George Monbiot's 2013 book Feral (which I must admit I haven't read yet, it's on the agenda though, watch this space).
I first became aware of the campaigns for re-introduction of large carnivores as part of a study trip to Ennerdale, one of the remotest valleys in the Lake District back when I was doing my degree several years ago now. Wild Ennerdale is a wild-land partnership with the aim of re-naturalising the valley, allowing the re-establishment of natural woodland with 11 key principles to ensure this is looked at in a holistic manner and that interventions are kept to a minimum. It is such a small area though and in isolation it's hard to see how much further it can go, connectivity and larger areas must surely have to be involved for success?
When we talk about re-wilding, Scotland is often billed as the top candidate. It is undoubtedly the "wildest" of our countries, the highlands being the least densely populated with mountains, glens and lochs a plenty. Yet much of these lands are still grazed, managed for game, largely tree-less and full of deer.
Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), Perthshire.
We have to face the fact that we are small and only have so much land that would be suitable for reintroductions (of large species anyway). We are also a nation of islands, so unlike the Netherlands and Belgium, where Grey Wolves are naturally making their own comeback, these species (unless they have wings!) are going to have a damn hard time getting here without a little help. So in order to "re-wild" we have to intervene and repair some of the damage we have done.
There are a number of existing success stories already, (some deliberate, some accidental) but these are animals perceived not to be especially dangerous, like Beavers, Sea Eagles and Wild Boar (the latter I assure you can be extremely dangerous!). There is also a movement towards re-forestation with charities like The Woodland Trust leading the way. The government has recently announced a "Northern Forest" which would spread across much of the more urbanised areas of the north of England.
Sea Eagles are a globally endangered species, and were persecuted to the point of extinction in the UK in the early 20th century. In the 1970s a reintroduction scheme was started in the west of Scotland following on from additional concerns about the effects of chemical pesticides. Several waves of chicks were introduced in the years that followed and the west now has an established population. An east Scotland project also followed.
Beavers were hunted to extinction in the UK in the 16th century due to demand for fur, meat and scent glands. There are reintroduction schemes in Scotland (and some rogues) and Devon and consultations about reintroductions in Wales. Beavers are considered to be a "Keystone Species" or "ecosystem engineers" in that they have a profound impact on the environment around them, including providing us with ecosystem services such as flood defences.
Wolves are perhaps the most widely talked about species on the topic of reintroduction (and certainty the ones I'd heard most about, even in my relative apathy). A potential solution to the issue of deer in Scotland, is it possible that these magnificent carnivores could return to our shores? I remember studying the effect of the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park, where there was a problem with Elk numbers. Following the reintroduction, improvements across the whole ecosystem could be seen, transforming both the ecosystem and its physical geography. One man especially keen on re-introduction of Wolves is Paul Lister on his estate, the Alladale Wilderness Reserve in the highlands.
Wolves however are problematic, they come with a complex mythology, designed to scare, look at the fairy-tale Little Red Riding hood or films like The Day After Tomorrow for example. Much of the uplands are used to farm sheep, and farmers understandably have concerns. This 2015 article by Adam Weymouth for the BBC explains the complicated feelings of people in the area. Farmers across Europe are learning to live with Wolves, where in many areas they are returning all by themselves. Although they are not accepted in all countries with open arms, as this recent article, Harmless or vicious hunter? The uneasy return of Europe's wolves by Patrick Barkham for the Guardian, highlights.
There is an excellent quote at the end of the article from Professor Chapron of Sweden's University of Agricultural Sciences, "It's insulting to the world that one of the richest countries, Norway, cannot have more than 50 wolves, considering Botswana, Mozambique and other extremely poor countries in Africa, are working really very hard to keep their lions. Imagine the outcry if those nations sought to kill half of their lions?". It's insulting to the world… such an interesting idea, we push for conservation in less developed nations, who haven't destroyed their ecosystems yet, but are not prepared to take one for the team and preserve what we have in our own back yards.
When I visited Canada in 2016 I asked one of the staff at Knight Inlet Lodge in the Great Bear Rainforest about wolves (naively hoping to see one) and she said that "seeing a wolf was like winning the lottery" and that she had only seen them twice in 12 years. Unlike the bears that the lodge's business is dependant upon the wolves are much warier of humans and actively avoid them.
Another carnivore, the Eurasian Lynx went extinct in the UK earlier than most of the other species, in or around the year 700. They are smaller, cuter and less scary than wolves, so perhaps a more suitable candidate, perhaps a gateway to getting used to living with larger, wild carnivores again? I was beyond ecstatic to find that Lynx UK Trust have recently submitted a licence application for a reintroduction scheme in Kielder Forest, not only is this positive progress but in my neck of the woods too! I for one would be a more regular visitor to the forest if I thought there was any chance of catching a glimpse. I have absolutely everything crossed in the hope that it will be successful!
To a lesser extent there is some debate about bears too, they went extinct in the UK probably after the lynx about 1000 years ago or so, but surely they even more controversial than wolves and in a country with such little land mass. Our native species is the Brown Bear, a big, powerful carnivore capable of roaming for hundreds of miles, so we have to be realistic. Areas with healthy bear populations tend to be large, like the Great Bear Rainforest which is some 250 miles in length and 21 million acres, Scotland is only 19.5 million acres, and the highlands (our most sparsely populated area) only about half of that, less if you discount the islands. Nothing would make my conservationist heart skip more than seeing Bears return to our shores, but I just don't think we have the space?
Young Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), Glendale Cove, Canada.
Coming at it from a different angle, we can examine the way we consider ourselves with respect to nature, are we not in fact animals after all? Are we not part of the environment? Do we not have a duty to preserve and enhance it?
When I was studying for my teaching qualification I had a colourful debate with a fellow student who questioned why he should have to teach shark awareness to divers because "there are no sharks here". There are in fact twenty one species of shark in UK waters all year round plus seasonal visitors, yes there is an extremely low risk of shark attack (if you saw a Porbeagle you'd probably need a change of dry suit…) but this just highlights the level of disconnect.
I am currently pouring over The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, a beautiful homage to the language of the natural world that we are losing at an alarming rate, highlighting our ever increasing isolation from it. And if we are disconnected from something how can we care about it? And we have been disconnected from fully functioning natural ecosystems on land in the UK for hundreds of years.
One of the dangers for me with regards to re-wilding is the need to potentially fence in the areas, effectively creating zoos albeit with large enclosures, that's not learning to live with nature, that's sanitising it for our own amusement. For something to be truly wild or natural, it needs connectivity. Paul Lister and the Alladale Wilderness Reserve have received criticism regarding this. Legally the public have the right to roam thus fencing in large swathes to keep the animals in (and humans out) would be contravening that.
Bleak (but beautiful) and treeless, a common landscape in our uplands.
The natural world is not something that can be behind a fence for us to go and take photos of on holiday, then head back to our little boxes and swift forget about, we are part of it… whether we like it or not. Re-wilding cannot be looked at in isolation, ecosystems are complex and dynamic, qualities we need to adopt. We need to learn to live alongside these species and recognise that we share our land and resources with them and that ultimately this benefits us.
Understandably, when it comes to reintroducing large carnivores, some areas of the society are going to raise concerns. Sheep farmers in particular have been a group resistant to proposals for re-introductions, and indeed any plans for this kind of project need to include views of the wider society, but in particular those most affected and ensure robust, inclusive proposals that ensure adequate compensation for farmers for any losses that may be sustained as a result of re-introduction. It is evident what side of the fence I come down on in this debate, but I accept we need to remember that farming is woven very tightly in to the fabric of our land, and that is not something to be disregarded.
Enhancing and protecting natural areas enhance our biodiversity and landscape, which go hand in hand with resilience to things like climate change and flooding. Protecting and enhancing the natural world can only increase the value of what have been named ecosystem services. i.e. the financial and societal benefit of the natural world.
Equally the value of re-wilding to the economy should not be overlooked, and this is one of the strongest counter arguments to resistance from farmers. Many (like myself) are prepared to pay vast sums of money for a wildlife experience and ecotourism is estimated to be worth a staggering 600 billion US dollars globally. The re-introduction of Sea Eagles on Mull alone is worth £5 million per year and supports 110 jobs. Ospreys bring in about £3.5 million in Scotland (just imagine what wolves could do for the economy). There must be opportunity to be had in reintroducing species for locals, farmers and landowners, and perhaps this might be of greater value than (or can at least be run in conjunction with) farming and shooting?
Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica). Many uplands are managed for shooting of game birds.
I do adore my little corner of the planet, and if you are not from here (or if you are and don't get out much) I encourage you to get out of the urban sprawl. The UK is so much more than our capital, which (while a great place in its own right) is not reflective of our identity and the rich tapestry of history, culture and landscape that exists across our islands.
…I just wish we had a little bit more that we could call truly wild.
In researching for this post I feel positive for the future, there seems to be a great deal more discussion and support for re-wilding than I had previously been aware of. This for sure is not the last blog post on this subject from me! I'd love to hear what you all think.
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I'm gratified to have my post mentioned in such a well-written, thoughtful article. I could comment on nearly every paragraph you've written, but I'd merely be gilding the lily.
There are some significant distinctions between the "wildness" of Britain and that of the U.S. and Canada, but more similarities than divergence. I was struck, from my first visit to Britain in 1971, by how thoroughly "lived-on" the land was. Deforestation and grazing had been in progress in your country for 1,000 years before my own ancestors got on boats and came HERE (variously, from Scotland, Hull and Grasmere). There's significant reading to be done, as you describe, about the myths and attitudes toward wolves. Here, we have a nation of well-armed hunters with trigger fingers itching to shoot a wolf, (multiple varieties of) bear, lynx, mountain lion, wild boar, pronghorn, elk, (multiple species of) deer, etc. I personally know a man who's shot at least one of each!
I saw wolves. A pack of wolves. In Denali National Park. A rare event, even for the people who work there. One of the high points of my life. My photos won't qualify for National Geographic, but it was a moment I'll remember as long as memory persists: https://wp.me/pH6ZJ-50I.
Thank you. I look forward to more.
Thanks Brad! Your post really got me thinking about our relationship with nature so thank you! It's really interesting looking at different countries and their attitudes to wildlife!
Sounds like you had an amazing time in Denali, thanks for sharing – that post has made me want to go. How wonderful that you saw wolves I can bet it was an amazing experience! Thank you for your kind words.
Thank you for a very thoughtful, well-written and interesting article. Regarding wolves, you may enjoy A Wolf Called Romeo, the true story of a black wolf's 7-year interaction with the people and dogs of Juneau, Alaska, beautifully written by Nick Jans (2015).


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Nearly 400 Internationally Educated Health Care Professionals Responded to Call for Applications
Released on October 21, 2022
The Ministry of Health is seeing success following a call-out for unlicensed, internationally educated Saskatchewan and/or Canadian residents who may qualify for future training or employment in the provincial health system.
Nearly 400 applications have been received since the early September announcement of the province's Health Human Resources Action Plan.
"Saskatchewan is a place of great opportunity for everyone, including internationally trained health care professionals, and I am pleased with the large number of applications this call-out has generated," Minister of Health Paul Merriman said. "Our aggressive, nation-leading Action Plan to recruit, train, incentivize and retain health care workers will expand the workforce, stabilize health services across the province, and build a stronger health-care system ready to meet the needs of our growing province."
Unlicensed Saskatchewan and/or Canadian residents who are internationally trained or experienced in health care were invited to fill out an Assessment Form to help identify supports that may be available for them. Supports for eligible applicants may include referral to language classes, assistance navigating the licensing pathway, potential additional training, financial assistance to support the costs associated with the licensing process, and referral to other services, with the final goal of connecting them to employment.
The Ministry of Health is in the process of reviewing applications that were received and following up with applicants. Applications are still being accepted. Four new health system navigators will come onboard this fall to assist in the recruitment and retention of internationally educated health care workers from home and abroad.
Training, licensing, and relocation supports are available for internationally educated health care workers currently living in the province or arriving from overseas. More information, can be found here or by emailing HHR@health.gov.sk.ca.
"We offer excellent opportunities, incentives and supports for those interested in working in health care in Saskatchewan, including internationally trained health care professionals," Mental Health and Addictions, Seniors and Rural and Remote Health Minister Everett Hindley said. "We'll continue spreading the word that you can build a successful and rewarding health career here in Saskatchewan, where you can enjoy a great quality of life, raise a family and be part of a strong and supportive community. Saskatchewan boasts scenic provincial parks, vibrant communities, short commutes and affordable homes."
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As FRA Operations Project Manager, you will develop and monitor our Fire Risk Assessment programme. You should be passionate about resident safety, ensuring our risk assessments go beyond simply ticking a compliancy box. You will help ensure our residents' safety remains at the heart of all we do.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new team and you will be encouraged to make a real difference from the outset. This is a vital area of work, gaining even more significance since the tragedy of the Grenfell fire. We are one of the few boroughs to have created a team with this focus and the impact of your work will shape the way other Councils approach resident safety.
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As of yesterday afternoon, both of my eldest children began their school summer holiday. Part of me is delighted. No more frantic evenings trying to get homework done, bags sorted and uniforms laid out. Nor is there any after school multi-skills activities and Saturday school of performing arts are on their summer break too….hurray! Hence why I am still in my pj's and the emptied toy chests are strewn across the orangery floor, the villain-on-wheels ( baby in baby walker) is flying across the floor at speeds Lewis Hamilton would qualify with, and the children are playing outside in the sunshine wearing raincoats under their umbrella's! No more pestering my kids for not realising the importance of being in bed on time…. I have no excuse they know it's the holidays.
Just as the up side to the summer solstice is that the days are getting shorter, the downside to school holidays is that while the children might be out, work is still in. Due to childcare expenses, my usual monthly spend will have been depleted by week one. Demands for increased television time, and fights over who's watching what are already kicking in. By Monday, I'm quite sure "I'm bored" will have been voiced at least once.Not that I'll be home to hear it….
I'm off to London. Ok not fully escaping my parental responsibilities as taking my daughter with me, I'm so excited to spend some quality mother daughter time with my precious girl. Were off to see Hairspray the musical and lots of sightseeing, including the London Eye.
I go to London often for business and leisure but I've not taken Gee (my daughter) since she was a toddler. So we have lots of exciting things planned. I have also been asked to attend a meeting for work whilst there, very exciting, sorry I can't reveal anything at present as it's all under wraps but watch this space! Let's hope Gee's boardroom skills are up to scratch as "the people" I'm meeting are more than happy she comes along.
This week I have frantically being trying to clear my inbox in preparation for both my trip and the school holidays. I have liaised and networked with various wedding colleagues across the globe, planned weddings in Jamaica, Lapland. Hawaii, Malaysia and Thailand. I have written articles and expert hints for several national wedding magazines….in between all this I played football in the park, took the kid's for modelling shots, did all the normal mum of three "stuff" and had a night out with the nursery mum's from school.
After having shared the 10ft x 8ft space, that is the nursery cloakroom, for 10 months with over 20 woman I still only know about 5 of them by name…ok so I lie I only share this space one morning each week,after nursery – Seb my eldest son, aged 4. goes to wrap around care on the other days.
After receiving an invite via a mummy friend, last week I was honoured they even knew my name let alone who's mum I was…so I accepted their kind offer of a drink and pizza.
This invitation was much to the hilarity of my husband, you see he is the only father who religiously does the school run every single day….actually I lie, the morning of the harvest festival assembly, I did take both children to school. Anyway I digress, but after having Theo in November last year Phil's offer to take over my usual Wednesday pick up was duly accepted. Combined by not being allowed to drive for six weeks following my "sunroof" delivery, it was about February before I was back into the swing of things.
I duly arrived at nursery one wet morning to collect Seb, I anchored my specs upon my head and tried to focus on the teacher calling for the children upon recognition of their Mummies! I thought, without my glasses on, that teacher was indicating Seb, my son, was busy and would be through in a moment.
There were all the mums collecting their little cherubs, all huddled together talking, an overcrowded cloakroom obscuring my view of Mrs Teacher. Then all of a sudden Mrs Teachers head pops through the throng of chattering mothers and loudly enquires to me "who are you here to collect"!
OMG the embarrassment! Without my specs I had not realised she was previously trying to subtly ask me who I was, by me just smiling back at her she had waited until she had the full attention of everyone in this tiny room before booming this out.
I'm sure I imagined the sniggers, and shuffled forward to admit that I was collecting Seb as I was his mummy! She tried to disguise her embarrassment as she mumbled something about "oh you look so well I didn't recognise you"…jeez thanks (I thought) I must have looked a car crash victim prior to this day then.
So anyway I did go along for a few drinks and a bowl of pasta the other night, and thankfully almost all the mum's knew my name, what I did and where I lived and guess what? I still haven't got a clue about any them!
OMG that is absolutely hilarious Karen!! You are a true inspiration to all women who work and have a family.


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Barely a stone's throw from the centre of Hyde itself—and the busy M67—Hyde test centre is ideally located and accessible for all learners living in and around the Tameside area. It couldn't be easier to arrive there, simply use these directions and off you go. Please note that Hyde test centre doesn't have a car park—meaning you'll have to park on nearby residential streets.
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The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has approved the canvass of the November 6, 2018 General Election. Today's canvass sends election results from Maricopa County to the Secretary of State's office for review.
"I want to thank Elections staff for the hard work involved in putting on an election of this magnitude," said Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Steve Chucri, District 2, "I also want to thank county leadership for moving swiftly to support the Elections Department after the issues in the August primary; county workers for answering the call to setup and staff polling sites this time around; and our auditors—the internal team and the firm BerryDunn—for their professionalism, speed, and care in offering solutions to the Recorder's Office that improved the voter experience."
State law requires the Board of Supervisors to canvass the returns within 20 days of the election. The canvass does not pass judgment on the results, but is a ministerial function certifying that the county is done counting.
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SPIRIT | Slovenia Partner Info Hot topics Slovenia Business Week no. 33: D&B Finds Government Strategic Plans Ambitious Print
Slovenia Business Week no. 33: D&B Finds Government Strategic Plans Ambitious
In its August report, D&B maintains Slovenia's risk rating at DB2c, the highest in Eastern Europe
The world's leading rating firm has assessed the government Strategy for Slovenia's Development in its latest report, saying that development strategy targets, such as catching up with the average development level of the enlarged EU, are highly ambitious.
Nevertheless, Dun&Bradstreet finds smaller goals, such as average real GDP growth of around 4% in 2006 and 2007, to be attainable and realistic.
In its August report, D&B maintains Slovenia's risk rating at DB2c, the highest in Eastern Europe. Moreover, the rating still bears a growth mark.
All macroeconomic projections remain the same as the month before, with the rating firm making a special mention of the increase in exports due to increased demand for Slovenian-made goods and services from France, Italy, the UK and Croatia.


* The Ceremonial Haggis is from Mags Mag-nificent Miniatures.
Happy Burns Night to you, Irene!
GREAT Haggis! LOVE the Dagger!
Mag-nificent haggis! Can I join you?
It brings good memories of a Burns'night I attended at a school when I was a French assistant in Glasgow.


People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing we're using them. In this book, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning. Bringing together the perspectives of linguistics and philosophy, Lakoff and Johnson offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind. And for this new edition, they supply an afterword both extending their arguments and offering a fascinating overview of the current state of thinking on the subject of the metaphor.
George Lakoff is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of, among other books, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things and Moral Politics, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
Mark Johnson is the Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. He is the author of The Body in the Mind and Moral Imagination, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Johnson and Lakoff have also coauthored Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought.
"The kind of conceptual system we have is a product of the kind of beings we are and the way we interact with our physical and cultural environments."
1.metaphor is not just a matter of language.
2.human thought processes are largely metaphorical.
3.human conceptual system is metaphorically structured and defined.
The metaphorical concept is systematic, the language we use to talk about that aspect of the concept is systematic.
1.Structured metaphorical concept is partial, not total, it means that can be extended in some ways.
1.Orientational metapor have the basis in our physical and cultural experience.
2,Most of them are organized in terms of one or more spatialization metaphors.
3,Spatialization metaphors are based in physical and cultural experience and not assigned randomly.
1.Not all cultural values coherent with a metaporical system.
2.The various subcultures of a mainstream culture share basic values but give them different priorities.
3.Not all cultures give te priorities to up-down orientation.
1.The basic experiences of human spatial orientations give us the rise to orientational metaphors.
2.Our experiences with physical object provide the basis for an extraodinarily wide variety of ontological metaphors as it follws: ways of viewing events, activities, emotions, ideas, etc., as entities and substances.
3.INFLATION examples, refers a few purposes used in the range otontological metaphors such as referring, quantifying, identifying aspects, identifying causes, setting goals and motivating actions.
4.THE MIND example and BRITTLE OBJECT example do not focus on the same aspect of mental experience.
5.Defining of a territory, putting a boundary around human instincts, is an act of quantification, we view them as containers with an inside and an outside.
6.TUB examples, view the tub as a CONTAINER OBJECT,while the water is a CONTAINER SUBSTANCE.
7.The metaphorical concept visual fields are containers.
8.Events and actions are conceptualized metaphorically as OBJECTS, activities as SUBSTANCES, states as CONTAINERS.
9.the RACE example, we view the race itself as a CONTAINER OBJECT, the start and finish as EVENTS,running as the ACTIVITY.
10.Activities in general are viewed metaphorically as SUBSTANCES and therefore as CONTAINERS. Thus, activities are viewed as containers for the actions and other activities that make them up.
1.perhaps the most obvious ontological metaphors.
2.personification is not a single unified general process.
3.INFLATION example shows that personification is a general category that covers a very wide range of metaphors.
1.Personification does not refer to actual human beings,but Metonymy does.
1.Metaphor is principally a way of conceiving of one thing in terms of another, and its primary function is understanding.
2.Metonymy has primarily a referential function, it allows us to use one entity to stand for another.
3.Metonymy is not merely a referential device, it also serves the function of providing understanding.
1.Allow us to focus more specifically on certain aspects of what is being referred to.
2.Not just a poetic or rhetorical device.
3.not random or arbitrary occurrences,but systematic.
1.TIME IS A MOVING OBJECT METAPHOR is the best example of the Metaphorical Contradiction.
2.TIME IS STATIONARY AND WE MOVE THROUGH IT exapmle have two subcases of the same metaphor.
3.In general, metaphorical concepts are defined not in terms of concrete images, but in therms of more general categories like passing.
Some examples that we called literal expressions structured by metaphorical concepts.
Lexical metaphors and grammatical metaphors!!! Stupid enough to choose this topic!!! I hold a grudge against my dissertation!!!!!!
Any adequate theory of the human conceptual system will have to give an account of how concepts are (1) grounded, (2) structured, (3) related to each other, and (4) defined.