- Language of Metaphors, A
Metaphor resources for teachers and students. Depicts metaphor types, such as funny metaphors and sensory metaphors. Also includes metaphor exercises.
knowgramming.com/metaphors
- Lakoff on Conceptual Metaphor
Scholarly work from linguist George Lakoff a contemporary theory of metaphor.
www.ac.wwu.edu/~market/semiotic/metaphor_toc.html
- Metaphor Project
Project aiming to build a collection of metaphors and analogies that English teachers can use to explain processes and abstract ideas to their students.
www.metaphorproject.org
- Forest of Rhetoric: Metaphor
A short definition of metaphor, with examples and definitions for related words like simile and catachresis. From Brigham Young University.
humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/M/metaphor.htm
- Visual Metaphor, Cultural Knowledge, and the New Rhetoric
Essay discussing the distinction between the verbal metaphors used by print cultures and the visual metaphors used by many oral cultures. From Learn in Beauty: Indigenous Education for a New Century.
jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/LIB/LIB8.html
- Multiple Selves
Paper by academic linguist George Lakoff on metaphorical models of the self. From the Conceptual Self in Context Conference at Emory University in 1992.
www.ac.wwu.edu/~market/semiotic/lkof_msl.html
- Nominalism and Transference: Meditations on Goodman's Theory of Metaphor
Essay by Jonathan Cohen examining Nelson Goodman's work Languages of Art within the context of his general theory of symbols.
csmaclab-www.uchicago.edu/philosophyProject/goodman/nominalism.html
- ATT-Meta Project Databank: Examples of Usage of Metaphors of Mind
Database of real-discourse examples of metaphorical descriptions of mental states and processes. from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the UK (EPSRC).
www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab/ATT-Meta/Databank
- Cognitive Science of Metaphor from Philosophy to Neuropsychology
Paper reviewing theoretical issues surrounding metaphor, through the context of the cognitive neuroscience debate. From the University of Oregon.
philosophy.uoregon.edu/metaphor/neurophl.htm
- Extended Metaphor Exercise
Describes extended metaphor and illustrates the linguistic device through example poems by Robert Francis, A.R. Ammons, and D.H. Lawrence.
www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14639
- Metaphors in Text Semantics: Problems and Prospects
Paper reviewing theories of metaphor and attempts to train computers to recognize or produce metaphoric content. From Stockholm University.
www.philosophy.su.se/personal/staffanstexter/metaphors.htm
- Introduction to Metaphor
Overview of the linguistic device of metaphor, which compares two apparently unlike objects. Covers the common and constructions of metaphors like appositional, adjectival, compound, and possessive noun metaphors.
www.somniloquy.org/archive/v2/poetry/statements.php?item=11
- MetaSelf
Examines how common spatial metaphors ("back of mind," etc) comprise a model of the self. With lesson plans combining psychology, virtues, and cognitive linguistics.
www.metaself.org
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