Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Metaphor" in English language version.
If you look at our ordinary language, it's replete with synesthetic metaphors, cross-sensory metaphors such as for example if you said cheddar cheese is sharp. [...] So I'm going to argue in fact synesthesia has very broad implications. It might tell you about things like metaphor and how language evolved in the brain, maybe even the emergence of abstract thought that us humans, human beings are very good at.
[...] the kind of category shifting and concept merging that goes on in metaphor may turn out to be a better clue for how language operates than literal speech. [...] metaphor pervades everyday speech to such an extent that we are rarely aware of its presence .
[...] a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them [... .]
