A visual approach to interpreting the career of the network metaphor

摘要: Abstract Metaphor has had a prolific presence in sociology: as subject of empirical study, tool for theorizing, and ideas that live public lives beyond the ivory tower. Despite all this work, tracing core dynamics metaphors over time remains persistent challenge. To address problem, I propose systematic analysis metaphor anchored around four questions. What do describe? How change time? do? And how conventional emerge? these questions context one metaphor: network metaphor. so, offer formal model career by drawing on cognitive linguistics sociological theories professional careers. Specifically, integrate Google Books Ngram corpus with computational techniques leverage co-occurrence to visualize interpret respect areas: its jurisdiction, temporality, ecology, conventionality. both revelatory case evaluating my critical deepening our historical understanding network. My lends validation argument achieved status broad category thinking about contemporary life. However, it also demonstrates lively history prior twentieth century. This includes significant changes was used first half nineteenth century, standing anatomical structures body mid-nineteenth predominant expression simile form start