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ATT-Meta Project Databank: Examples of Usage of Metaphors of Mind

contains real-discourse examples of metaphorical descriptions of mental states and processes.

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab/ATT-Meta/Databank/

Enhancing Sustainable Development Strategies through Avoidance of Military Metaphors

asks whether such simplistic language is adequate to the challenges of communicating complex insights in response to complex environmental issues.

http://www.uia.org/uiadocs/targets.htm

Lakoff on Conceptual Metaphor

explores a contemporary theory of metaphor.

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~market/semiotic/metaphor_toc.html

Making Sense of Metaphors: Visuality, Aurality and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse

examines 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.

http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/meta_int.htm

Metaphor and Metonymy Group

includes abstracts, conferences, news, and other resources.

http://www.le.ac.uk/psychology/metaphor/metaphor.html

Metaphor Project

an effort to build a collection of metaphors and analogies that English teachers can use to explain processes and abstract ideas.

http://www.co-intelligence.org/metaphorproject.html

Metaphors of Governance

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.

http://www.uia.org/homemeta.htm

Multiple Selves

paper by George Lakoff on metaphorical models of the self.

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~market/semiotic/lkof_msl.html

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