Metaphor and Thought: The conduit metaphor: A case of frame conflict in our language about language

By Michael J. Reddy. 1993

Subfields: Natural Language Processing, Linguistics

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AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark (2021, background): “Furthermore, language understanding relies not only on linguistic competence but also world knowledge, commonsense reasoning, and the ability to model the interlocutor’s state of mind [Reddy, 1979, Clark, 1996], none of which can be thoroughly tested through text-only tasks, such as GLUE.”
Repetition and Joking in Children’s Second Language Conversations: Playful Recyclings in an Immersion Classroom (2004, background): “Sociocultural theory has advocated a redefinition of learning, disassociating it from formal curricula and a traditional focus on teachers’ contributions (teacher–student knowledge transmission; cf. the ‘conduit metaphor’, Reddy, 1979).”
Metaphorical conceptualizations of ESL teaching and learning (2002, background): “Such is the case, as Wertsch (1995) and Reddy (1993) point out, of the conduit metaphor, which has so strongly shaped our view of communication that it is very difficult to conceive of language and communication in other ways.”
The career of metaphor. (2005, background): “A growing body of linguistic evidence further suggests that metaphors are important for communicating about, and perhaps even reasoning with, abstract concepts such as time and emotion (e.g., Kovecses, 1988; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Quinn, 1987; Reddy, 1979; Sweetser, 1990).”
Sharing Meaning Across Occupational Communities: The Transformation of Understanding on a Production Floor (2003, background): “While theorists realize that the mechanical notion of knowledge transfer is a limited one, it persists in our thinking about knowledge in organizations, implying that communication of knowledge is a simple process (Reddy 1979).”
Re-grounding Grounded Theory (2002, methodology): “Cognitive reservoirs of previous experience and knowledge can be dammed, blocked or diverted - a good example of what Michael Reddy terms the conduit metaphor (see Reddy, 1993 and Bryant, 2001).”
The myth of language universals: language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. (2009, background): “The conduit metaphor of language is pervasive but too often misleading (Reddy 1979).”