[xhevahir]

I don't buy Lakoff's idea that meaning is fundamentally metaphorical. For one thing, it fails to account for our ability to judge the aptness of a given metaphor. There's a book, Understanding Figurative Language, that makes a critique along these lines.

[archduck]

Conceptual metaphor is different from literary metaphor. It's one of the first things Lakoff talks about.