What is an activation-as-motion metaphor?

What is an activation-as-motion metaphor?

Definition
	A conventional metaphor in which the beginning of a perception is represented as motion.

Examples (English)
	Here are some examples:
	Here comes the beep. There goes the throbbing in my head again.

Generic
	An activation-as-motion metaphor is a kind of
	What is a nonvisual-perception-as-spatial metaphor?

Source
	Lakoff, G. 1987

Context for this page:

Concept module: activation-as-motion metaphor
In modular book: Metaphors in English, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H. Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
In bookshelf: Lexicon

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