Conduit Metaphor The idea of ​​the conduit metaphor can be found in the article "Body, Brain, and Communication: An interview with George Lakeoff" by "Iain A. Boal". In this article the person interviewed is George Lakeoff, professor of linguistics at the University of California (Berkeley). Boal in this article discusses what the conduit metaphor really means and what meaning it has for ordinary people. In this article, another aspect of the conduit metaphor discussed includes communication on the World Wide Web. The conduit metaphor is a metaphor that describes communication between two mediums. The conduit metaphor proposes that ideas are objects and are transferred through a channel. Although it has its limitations, it is very important in our society today. Let's begin by discussing how the discoverer of the conduit metaphor, Michael Reddy, defined it. According to Reddy "our main metaphor of communication can be derived from a general metaphor of the mind in which ideas are regarded as objects and thought as manipulation of objects"; memory acts as a repository. Thus, ideas or objects can be retrieved from memory. Taking this into account he developed the theory of conduit metaphor in which he described ideas as objects that can be expressed in words; language was described by a Reddy as a container, and so you send ideas in words through a conduit (a communication channel) to someone else who then extracts the ideas from the words. So it is implied that the understanding of an idea or concept is achieved intuitively in the brain and therefore a better path leads to a better understanding of what is said. From our dialect one can find many examples that are in agreement with this theory of the duct metaphor. For example "Do you understand?", "The professor filled our heads with many things today", "It went over my head", etc. are all examples that imply that something (an idea) was being sent and the listener had to grasp it. One thing that comes as an immediate result of the conduit metaphor is that ideas can be extracted and that it is possible for them to exist independently of people. This implies that meaning is a thing. This may seem like a very provocative idea to an ordinary naive person. But it is only true in certain special circumstances and does not work in some cases. Let's take an example. I immigrated from India to the United States.