Metaphor Semantics Linguistics

Metaphor

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• - Overview of computer scientist Ray Paton's metaphor research, with links and a bibliography.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Research project which simulates reasoning about mental states and metaphor in a rule-based system. Various papers and a metaphor databank.
  
• - Presentation of an undergraduate's research, with reference to concreteness, conventionality and implicit formulation.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Two strategies for a systematic procedure to reconstruct metaphorical concepts and metaphorical reasoning in everyday language.
  
• - Expert in cognitive metaphor, conceptual blending and other areas of communication and creativity. Book descriptions, selected articles and links.
  
• - A series of talks and discussions at UCSD in 1998, by Gilles Fauconnier, Douglas Hofstadter, Ray Gibbs, George Lakoff, and others.
  
• - A debate on Nelson Goodman's theory of metaphor, started by Jonathan Cohen's essay 'Nominalism and Transference'.
  
• - Metaphors collected by master students and documented in their theses, organized by semantic fields.
  
• - Abstract of Orly Goldwasser's book 'From Icon to Metaphor: Studies in the Semiotics of the Hieroglyphs'.
  
• - Article in metaphorik.de by Brigitte Nehrlich.
  
• - A research and consulting firm which uses the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET) to reveal the consumers' subconscious motivation.
  
• - How to build metaphors and how to use metaphors as learning tools.
  
• - Scholarly journal. Abstracts from recent issues and one free sample issue.
  
• - Online journal on metaphor and metonymy. Published twice a year. Articles and reviews in German, English, and French.
  
• - Review of J.H. Martin's computational metaphor interpretation model MIDAS.
  
• - Definitions and examples of metaphor, simile, dead metaphors and mixed metaphors.
  
• - Explores the role of metaphor in Plato's texts, postmodernist works, culture, and technology.
  
• - Resources for figurative language research: abstracts, conferences, a mailing list, links, articles and reviews.
  
• - Cognitive linguist with a special interest in visual metaphors.
  
• - Catalogue of common metaphors maintained by George Lakoff.
  
• - PhD research by Brendan Larson at UCSB, exploring the role of metaphors in communication between biological science and society.
  
• - This paper examines some of the metaphors that have evolved as we have incorporated computer technology into our lives.
  
  

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