The Power of Sports Metaphors in Politics: Trump vs. Clinton as The Main Event
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- Category: Op/Ed, Legal Commentary
- Published on Sunday, 04 September 2016 10:20
- Written by Jackson Katz
Gender norms influence not just what we think, but how. Consider the presence of sports metaphors in American politics. Metaphors are not merely figures of speech. According to the cognitive scientists and philosophers George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980), human thought processes are largely metaphorical.