Abstract:Summary is the conduit metaphor a really Wrong metaphor for the understanding of Our communication?The paper briefly presents the main assumptions of the Conduit Metaphor, described by Reddy as the basic model of human communication, which is present in both our thinking about language and in the language we speak itself. Unfortunately, most often we are unaware of this fact. According to Reddy, expressions structured by this metaphor make up, roughly speaking, about 70 per cent of all language expressions we … Show more
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