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Words create and divide worldviews: Comparing metaphors in banking and maritime

Words create and divide worldviews: Comparing metaphors in banking and maritime

Update: 2025-09-06
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Where do you look for the meaning of words? Dictionaries, I guess? Word meanings are not to be found in dictionaries; words meanings are found in metaphors. All language is metaphorical, and we don’t just speak metaphorically, we live by our metaphors. 

 

In this podcast, David and Nippin compare a handful of metaphors in Banking and Maritime. Through this comparison they realise that words don’t just create worlds, but they also create divides between worldviews. Too often, we miss a crucial point in organising - you cannot organise me and I will never become part of your organisation if we don’t share the same worldview. Such is the power of metaphors. 


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Words create and divide worldviews: Comparing metaphors in banking and maritime

Words create and divide worldviews: Comparing metaphors in banking and maritime

Nippin Anand