Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking (147 page)

Wien, Wilhelm,
458
,
459

wine: analogies between types of,
245–246
; expert understanding of,
244–246
; fancy terms used by experts,
421
; inaccessibility of, due to lack of corkscrew,
249
; zeugma involving verbs for drinking red
versus
white,
13

wires crossed,
see
errors
,
speech errors

“with”, zeugmatically exploited,
6

Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
55

women as
men
,
193–194
,
195
;
see also
Madonna Woods
, Tiger: as prototypical golfer,
49
,
50
; as transculturation of Zinédine Zidane,
379
; of user-generated video, the,
222

word choice: constrained by phrase choice,
25
; constrained by thought choice,
26–27
; made by conscious analogy,
45–46
,
73
; made by unconscious analogy,
18
,
33
,
39–43
,
46–49
,
66–76
,
403–405

word problems in mathematics,
414–434

word/soldier
analogy,
25
,
26

words: blended together,
266–268
; evoked by airport scene,
33–34
; far outnumbered by categories,
85
; as opposed to concepts,
34
; retrieved by analogy,
33
,
39–43
,
45–49
,
66–76
,
270–278
; subterranean flavors of,
485
; traps lurking in,
290–293
; unlikely to trigger retrieval of episodes,
159

“wrong” analogies in Copycat domain,
350–351

—X—

X-rays,
455

xyz
analogy problem in Copycat domain,
354–358
,
360
,
371
,
477

—Y—

Yang, Chen-Ning,
453

yesterday
, semantic halo surrounding,
273–274

you/me
analogy,
155–156

Young, Thomas,
212

“your wife is very pretty” me-too analogy,
147–148

—Z—

z
, special role of, in Copycat analogies,
354–358

Zehe, Zora von,
464

Zeigefinger, Zygmund,
464–465

zeugmas: as revealing facets of concepts,
5–13
,
19
; used in text,
194

zeugmaticity, sliding scale of,
8–9
,
11–13
,
19–20

zeugmometer,
19

Zhong, Chen-Bo,
289

zigzags in discourse space,
72–73

Zinédine Zidane/Tiger Woods analogy,
379

zooming in: on a foot,
51
; on a graph,
393
; on a sabbatical year,
50
; on the concept
hub
,
52
,
54