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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.
Wikipedia - Metaphor
Definitions and examples of metaphor, simile, dead metaphors and mixed metaphors.
Conceptual Metaphor Home Page
Catalogue of common metaphors maintained by George Lakoff.
Metaphors and Computers
Review of J.H. Martin's computational metaphor interpretation model MIDAS.
The Metaphor and Metonymy Group
Resources for figurative language research: abstracts, conferences, a mailing list, links, articles and reviews.
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.
Metaphor: From Plato to the Postmodernists
Explores the role of metaphor in Plato's texts, postmodernist works, culture, and technology.
Sci-Phi Pilot: A Language of Metaphors
How to build metaphors and how to use metaphors as learning tools.
Tracking the fate of the metaphor silent spring in British environmental discourse: Towards an evolutionary ecology of metaphor
Article in metaphorik.de by Brigitte Nehrlich.
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.
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