Harm

Roles: harmer, victim, injury, pain, damage, recovery, vulnerability

The domain of injury, damage, and suffering — physical or abstract. Harm covers everything from bodily wounds to emotional hurt to institutional damage. As a target domain, it draws on physical source frames (cutting, burning, striking, piercing) to make abstract suffering concrete and communicable. The metaphorical structure of harm shapes legal concepts (damages, injury, liability) and moral reasoning (transgression, violation, wound).

As Source Frame (1)

• Death by a Thousand Cuts → organizational-decline

Applied To This Frame (1)

• horticulture → Harm Is a Thorn