Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Metaphor

Quotes about: Metaphor

• All words, in every language, are metaphors.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Language, Metaphor

  Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA

• Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Taken, Media, Wire

• Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Speech, Patterns, Metaphor

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". p. 231. Book by Marshall McLuhan and Eric McLuhan, 1988.

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