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This document summarizes and critiques existing analyses of the "conduit metaphor" for communication. It discusses how Reddy and Lakoff & Johnson originally presented the metaphor as conceptualizing communication as the transfer of objects (ideas/meanings) between people via linguistic expressions (containers). However, the document argues this existing analysis has some problems, including a lack of clear experiential basis to motivate the metaphor mappings. It proposes a reexamination of the data is neede

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