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Making Sense of Metaphors: Visuality, Aurality and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse
Paper examining the reconfiguration of contemporary American legal discourse represented by the apparent shift from mostly visually-evocative metaphors for law and legal practice towards a greater number of aurally-evocative figures of speech.
www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/meta_int.htm
Governance Through Metaphor Project
Explores the role of metaphor and pattern in relation to governance, understanding of world problems, articulation of more appropriate organizational strategies, transformative conferencing and dialogue, and knowledge organization.
www.uia.org/metaphor/home.php
Enhancing Sustainable Development Strategies through Avoidance of Military Metaphors
Scholastic essay asking whether such simplistic language is adequate to the challenges of communicating complex insights in response to complex environmental issues.
www.uia.org/uiadocs/targets.htm

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