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    • ATT-Meta Project Databank: Examples of Usage of Metaphors of Mind open this site in another window - Database of real-discourse examples of metaphorical descriptions of mental states and processes. from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the UK (EPSRC).
    • Cognitive Science of Metaphor from Philosophy to Neuropsychology open this site in another window - Paper reviewing theoretical issues surrounding metaphor, through the context of the cognitive neuroscience debate. From the University of Oregon.
    • Extended Metaphor Exercise open this site in another window - Describes extended metaphor and illustrates the linguistic device through example poems by Robert Francis, A.R. Ammons, and D.H. Lawrence.
    • Forest of Rhetoric: Metaphor open this site in another window - A short definition of metaphor, with examples and definitions for related words like simile and catachresis. From Brigham Young University.
    • Introduction to Metaphor open this site in another window - Overview of the linguistic device of metaphor, which compares two apparently unlike objects. Covers the common and constructions of metaphors like appositional, adjectival, compound, and possessive noun metaphors.
    • Lakoff on Conceptual Metaphor open this site in another window - Scholarly work from linguist George Lakoff a contemporary theory of metaphor.
    • Language of Metaphors, A open this site in another window - Metaphor resources for teachers and students. Depicts metaphor types, such as funny metaphors and sensory metaphors. Also includes metaphor exercises.
    • Metaphor Project open this site in another window - Project aiming to build a collection of metaphors and analogies that English teachers can use to explain processes and abstract ideas to their students.
    • Metaphors in Text Semantics: Problems and Prospects open this site in another window - Paper reviewing theories of metaphor and attempts to train computers to recognise or produce metaphoric content. From Stockholm University.
    • MetaSelf open this site in another window - Examines how common spatial metaphors ("back of mind," etc) comprise a model of the self. With lesson plans combining psychology, virtues, and cognitive linguistics.
    • Multiple Selves open this site in another window - Paper by academic linguist George Lakoff on metaphorical models of the self. From the Conceptual Self in Context Conference at Emory University in 1992.
    • Nominalism and Transference: Meditations on Goodman's Theory of Metaphor open this site in another window - Essay by Jonathan Cohen examining Nelson Goodman's work Languages of Art within the context of his general theory of symbols.
    • Visual Metaphor, Cultural Knowledge, and the New Rhetoric open this site in another window - Essay discussing the distinction between the verbal metaphors used by print cultures and the visual metaphors used by many oral cultures. From Learn in Beauty: Indigenous Education for a New Century.
     



     
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