Economics

Roles: buyer, seller, commodity, price, market, investment, budget, exchange

The domain of markets, money, and exchange. Encompasses commodities, pricing, investment, budgeting, debt, and scarcity. One of the most prolific source domains in English — we spend time, invest attention, buy arguments, and pay compliments. The frame’s gravitational pull reflects capitalism’s reach into every corner of experience.

As Source Frame (9)

• Action Is Control Over Possessions → event-structure
• Causation Is Commercial Transaction → causal-reasoning
• Ideas Are Commodities → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Money → intellectual-inquiry
• Ideas Are Resources → intellectual-inquiry
• Labor Is a Resource → collaborative-work
• Technical Debt → software-programs
• Time Is a Limited Resource → time-and-temporality
• Time Is Money → time-and-temporality

As Target Frame (1)

• embodied-experience → Inflation Is an Entity