# What it’s all About

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-07-18-what-its-all-about

The piece defines metaphor hacking as examining and reconstructing the conceptual frames used in thought and language.

Blog post · Metaphor Hacker · 18 July 2010

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Metaphor Hacker (metaphorhacker.net)](https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/07/what-its-all-about/)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 18 July 2010
- Published in: Metaphor Hacker
- Language: English

Topics: metaphor, conceptual-framing, language-meaning.

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