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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.

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

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. (1999)

http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/metaphor.html

Forceville, Charles

Cognitive linguist with a special interest in visual metaphors.

http://www.semioticon.com/people/forceville.htm

Hamburg Metaphor Database

Metaphors collected by master students and documented in their theses, organized by semantic fields.

http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/metaphern/index_en.html

Hypotheses Revisited: The Cognitive Theory of Metaphor Applied to Religious Texts

Article by Olaf J?kel 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. (December, 2002)

http://www.metaphorik.de/02/jaekel.htm

Metaphor and Symbol

Scholarly journal. Abstracts from recent issues and one free sample issue.

http://www.catchword.com/erlbaum/10926488/contp1-1.htm

metaphorik.de

Online journal on metaphor and metonymy. Published twice a year. Articles and reviews in German, English, and French.

http://www.metaphorik.de/english/english.htm

Metaphors and Computers

Review of J.H. Martin's computational metaphor interpretation model MIDAS. (1992)

http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/srb/srb/metaphorscomp.html

Metaphors as Messengers

PhD research by Brendan Larson at UCSB, exploring the role of metaphors in communication between biological science and society.

http://www.es.ucsb.edu/faculty/larson/

Notes Towards the Analysis of Metaphor

Two strategies for a systematic procedure to reconstruct metaphorical concepts and metaphorical reasoning in everyday language. (January, 2000)

http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-00/1-00schmitt-e.htm

Sci-Phi Pilot: A Language of Metaphors

How to build metaphors and how to use metaphors as learning tools.

http://knowgramming.com/metaphors

The Frequency of Original Metaphors in Literary and Nonliterary Texts

Presentation of an undergraduate's research, with reference to concreteness, conventionality and implicit formulation. (August, 1998)

http://www.woordenboer.nl/metafoor/abstract.htm

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. (July, 2003)

http://www.metaphorik.de/04/nerlich.htm

Turner, Mark

Expert in cognitive metaphor, conceptual blending and other areas of communication and creativity. Book descriptions, selected articles and links.

http://markturner.org/

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