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Metaphor (from Semantics)
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Metaphors as Messengers
PhD research by Brendan Larson at UCSB, exploring the role of metaphors in communication between biological science and society.
metaphorik.de
Online journal on metaphor and metonymy. Published twice a year. Articles and reviews in German, English, and French.
Metaphor: From Plato to the Postmodernists
Explores the role of metaphor in Plato's texts, postmodernist works, culture, and technology.
Veale, Tony
Articles on metaphor, analogy and creativity, a computational model and a metaphor encyclopedia.
From Icon to Metaphor
Abstract of Orly Goldwasser's book 'From Icon to Metaphor: Studies in the Semiotics of the Hieroglyphs'.
Analogy, Metaphor, and Integration
A series of talks and discussions at UCSD in 1998, by Gilles Fauconnier, Douglas Hofstadter, Ray Gibbs, George Lakoff, and others.
Cyberspace is a Parallel World, a Metaphor Analysis
This paper examines some of the metaphors that have evolved as we have incorporated computer technology into our lives.
Hypotheses Revisited: The Cognitive Theory of Metaphor Applied to Religious Texts
Article by Olaf Jäkel in metaphorik.de. Summarizes the cognitive theory of metaphor in nine hypotheses. These are seen to be corroborated by an analysis of biblical journey metaphors, although the validity of the 'invariance hypothesis' is questioned.
Turner, Mark
Expert in cognitive metaphor, conceptual blending and other areas of communication and creativity. Book descriptions, selected articles and links.
Sci-Phi Pilot: A Language of Metaphors
How to build metaphors and how to use metaphors as learning tools.
Metaphors and Computers
Review of J.H. Martin's computational metaphor interpretation model MIDAS.
Metaphor in Scientific Thinking
Overview of computer scientist Ray Paton's metaphor research, with links and a bibliography.
Wikipedia - Metaphor
Definitions and examples of metaphor, simile, dead metaphors and mixed metaphors.
Metaphor and Symbol
Scholarly journal. Abstracts from recent issues and one free sample issue.
The Frequency of Original Metaphors in Literary and Nonliterary Texts
Presentation of an undergraduate's research, with reference to concreteness, conventionality and implicit formulation.
The Metaphor and Metonymy Group
Resources for figurative language research: abstracts, conferences, a mailing list, links, articles and reviews.
Hamburg Metaphor Database
Metaphors collected by master students and documented in their theses, organized by semantic fields.
Forceville, Charles
Cognitive linguist with a special interest in visual metaphors.
The Darmok Dictionary
Analysis of 'Darmok', episode 102 from the science-fiction TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, about 'the Children of Tama', whose language consists entirely of historical metaphors.
Tracking the fate of the metaphor silent spring in British environmental discourse: Towards an evolutionary ecology of metaphor
Article in metaphorik.de by Brigitte Nehrlich.
Notes Towards the Analysis of Metaphor
Two strategies for a systematic procedure to reconstruct metaphorical concepts and metaphorical reasoning in everyday language.
Conceptual Metaphor Home Page
Catalogue of common metaphors maintained by George Lakoff.
Goodman's Theory of Metaphor
A debate on Nelson Goodman's theory of metaphor, started by Jonathan Cohen's essay 'Nominalism and Transference'.
Barnden, John - ATT-Meta Project
Research project which simulates reasoning about mental states and metaphor in a rule-based system. Various papers and a metaphor databank.
PhD research by Brendan Larson at UCSB, exploring the role of metaphors in communication between biological science and society.
Online journal on metaphor and metonymy. Published twice a year. Articles and reviews in German, English, and French.
Explores the role of metaphor in Plato's texts, postmodernist works, culture, and technology.
Articles on metaphor, analogy and creativity, a computational model and a metaphor encyclopedia.
Abstract of Orly Goldwasser's book 'From Icon to Metaphor: Studies in the Semiotics of the Hieroglyphs'.
A series of talks and discussions at UCSD in 1998, by Gilles Fauconnier, Douglas Hofstadter, Ray Gibbs, George Lakoff, and others.
This paper examines some of the metaphors that have evolved as we have incorporated computer technology into our lives.
Article by Olaf Jäkel in metaphorik.de. Summarizes the cognitive theory of metaphor in nine hypotheses. These are seen to be corroborated by an analysis of biblical journey metaphors, although the validity of the 'invariance hypothesis' is questioned.
Expert in cognitive metaphor, conceptual blending and other areas of communication and creativity. Book descriptions, selected articles and links.
How to build metaphors and how to use metaphors as learning tools.
Review of J.H. Martin's computational metaphor interpretation model MIDAS.
Overview of computer scientist Ray Paton's metaphor research, with links and a bibliography.
Definitions and examples of metaphor, simile, dead metaphors and mixed metaphors.
Scholarly journal. Abstracts from recent issues and one free sample issue.
Presentation of an undergraduate's research, with reference to concreteness, conventionality and implicit formulation.
Resources for figurative language research: abstracts, conferences, a mailing list, links, articles and reviews.
Metaphors collected by master students and documented in their theses, organized by semantic fields.
Cognitive linguist with a special interest in visual metaphors.
Analysis of 'Darmok', episode 102 from the science-fiction TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, about 'the Children of Tama', whose language consists entirely of historical metaphors.
Article in metaphorik.de by Brigitte Nehrlich.
Two strategies for a systematic procedure to reconstruct metaphorical concepts and metaphorical reasoning in everyday language.
Catalogue of common metaphors maintained by George Lakoff.
A debate on Nelson Goodman's theory of metaphor, started by Jonathan Cohen's essay 'Nominalism and Transference'.
Research project which simulates reasoning about mental states and metaphor in a rule-based system. Various papers and a metaphor databank.
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