Metaphor Scenario Analysis as Part of Cultural Linguistics

Jim, Thanks for your reply. I personally have run across precious little to follow up on Lakoff's metaphor analyses, which are now getting a bit dated. Blends (Fauconnier, et. al.) have been the rage in metaphor theory for some time, and there has been a move to formalism (lots of drawings of circles of "spaces" and arrows connecting them, all a bit busy for my taste). Nothing bad in itself here, just not following up on Lakoff and expanding his Conceptual Metaphor Theory as I would like to see done. So I will look into your bibliographic references. I know Fausto Liriano is especially interested in this area as well, and is working on a Ph.D. where all this is very relevant. So again, thanks, and I look forward to some productive investigations of new (for me) material. As to your comments of aboriginal peoples of Australia and North American Native Americans, I suspect there are both important similarities as well as differences in their relations with the European immigrants. I do not know the Australian context so much, but in the American one there were not a few Europeans who actually tried to exterminate the Native Americans. One the other hand, there were quite a few who wanted to "help" them, though this usually took the form of forced assimilation, including taking children away from their parents and putting them in government boarding schools, which I think also happened in Australia. I am sure in their own minds it was benevolence, but many descendants of Native Americans now find these practices to have been condescending and patronizing.