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A debate on Nelson Goodman's theory of metaphor, started by Jonathan Cohen's essay 'Nominalism and Transference'.
csmaclab-www.uchicago.edu
Sci-Phi Pilot: A Language of Metaphors
How to build metaphors and how to use metaphors as learning tools.
knowgramming.com
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.
cogsci.ucsd.edu
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.
www.jqjacobs.net
The Frequency of Original Metaphors in Literary and Nonliterary Texts
Presentation of an undergraduate's research, with reference to concreteness, conventionality and implicit formulation.
www.woordenboer.nl
Notes Towards the Analysis of Metaphor
Two strategies for a systematic procedure to reconstruct metaphorical concepts and metaphorical reasoning in everyday language.
www.qualitative-research.net
Metaphors collected by master students and documented in their theses, organized by semantic fields.
www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de
PhD research by Brendan Larson at UCSB, exploring the role of metaphors in communication between biological science and society.
www.es.ucsb.edu
Online journal on metaphor and metonymy. Published twice a year. Articles and reviews in German, English, and French.
www.metaphorik.de
Article in metaphorik.de by Brigitte Nehrlich.
www.metaphorik.de
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.
www.metaphorik.de
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.
www.cs.bham.ac.uk
Catalogue of common metaphors maintained by George Lakoff.
cogsci.berkeley.edu
Definitions and examples of metaphor, simile, dead metaphors and mixed metaphors.
en.wikipedia.org
Review of J.H. Martin's computational metaphor interpretation model MIDAS.
www.univie.ac.at