Target Domain
Definition:
A target domain is a semantic domain that is structured and understood metaphorically in terms of another domain.
Examples:
Here are some examples of the domain of quantity, to which the verticality schema is applied in the more-as-up and less-as-down metaphors expressed in the following:
- The crime rate keeps rising.
- The number of books published each year keeps going up.
- That stock has fallen again.
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Our sales dropped last year.
See Also:
Source:
276–277, 288
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.