Journeys
Roles: traveler, path, destination, obstacle, crossroads, vehicle, guide, milestone
Travel from origin to destination along a path, encountering obstacles and making choices at forks. The dominant narrative metaphor in Western culture — life, love, arguments, and careers are all journeys. Structurally rich because it provides direction (progress vs. regression), choice points (crossroads), impediments (roadblocks), and an evaluative endpoint (arrival or failure to arrive).
As Source Frame (8)
- Argument Is a Journey → argumentation
- Competition Is a Race → competition
- Existence Is A Location → event-structure
- Life Is a Journey → life-course
- Long-Term Purposeful Change Is a Journey → event-structure
- Love Is A Journey → love-and-relationships
- Purposes Are Destinations → event-structure
- States Are Locations → event-structure