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Goodman's Theory of Metaphor
A debate on Nelson Goodman's theory of metaphor, started by Jonathan Cohen's essay 'Nominalism and Transference'. (infos)The Metaphor and Metonymy Group
Resources for figurative language research: abstracts, conferences, a mailing list, links, articles and reviews. (infos)
Metaphor and Symbol
Scholarly journal. Abstracts from recent issues and one free sample issue. (infos)
Sci-Phi Pilot: A Language of Metaphors
How to build metaphors and how to use metaphors as learning tools. (infos)
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. (infos)
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. (infos)
The Frequency of Original Metaphors in Literary and Nonliterary Texts
Presentation of an undergraduate's research, with reference to concreteness, conventionality and implicit formulation. (infos)
Notes Towards the Analysis of Metaphor
Two strategies for a systematic procedure to reconstruct metaphorical concepts and metaphorical reasoning in everyday language. (infos)
Hamburg Metaphor Database
Metaphors collected by master students and documented in their theses, organized by semantic fields. (infos)
Metaphors as Messengers
PhD research by Brendan Larson at UCSB, exploring the role of metaphors in communication between biological science and society. (infos)