General Metaphor Sites offering resources on metaphor
Metaphor
Centre (a valuable resource site with papers not updated in
a while now)
Conceptual
Metaphor Site (Lakoff’s site with database of metaphors
isolated in everyday speech)
ATT
project database (another database with examples of metaphors
of mind)
Science
and metaphor (lots of useful material for thinking about metaphor
in relation to computer science and biology as well as many other
references for other disciplines)
Examples
of metaphors and values
Encyclopedia
Metaphorica (online encyclopedia of metaphor)
Governance
through Metaphor Project (Wide-ranging and thoughtful use of
conceptual metaphor theory for understanding world problems and
human potential)
Metaphor and Chinese language/philosophy
Ning
Yu (Some interesting work on metaphor and Chinese medicine,
the body and emotion)
Edward
Slingerland (Examining ancient Chinese thought and philosophy
through metaphor)
Metaphors
of mental multiplicity
Thome
Fang and the Spirit of Chinese Philosophy
The
Conceptual Structure of Emotional Experience in Chinese (A doctoral
dissertation completed in 1989. It uses Lakoff & Johnson's cognitive
linguistic approach to analyze the folk/cultural models of several
emotion concepts. It is available as a downloadable .pdf)
Williams and Dutton (Paper
on the importance of metaphor in translating and understanding Chinese
medicine concepts. with permission, European Journal of Oriental
Medicine, 4, 5, 46-52. 2004) (Pdf File)
Lakoff and Johnson’s Philosophy in the Flesh
Interview
with Lakoff
A
review of Philosophy in the Flesh (1999)
Online papers
Theory
The
contemporary theory of metaphor – George Lakoff (1999)
Lakoff
on Conceptual Metaphor
The
body in the flesh – David Miall (importance of metaphor
for understanding literature)
Realism
and metaphor – Abbott and Hauser (1995)
Metaphoric
reasoning in Philosophy and Science
Politics
Metaphor
and politics – George Lakoff (1995)
On
Terrorism – George Lakoff (2001)
Dreams
Morality
metaphor and dreaming – Montague Ullman (1999)
How
metaphor structures dreams
Beyond
Freud and Jung
Parapsychology
Metaphor
Parapsychology and Psi
Metaphors
and Lay Theories of Psi Experiences
Computing
Challenging
the computational metaphor
Interfaces
and metaphors – Elissa Smilowitz
Metaphors
we compute by – Tim Rohrer (1995)
Health
Environment
and health
Gender
and metaphors of contagion
Science
and medicine articles (Thagard)
Law
Making
sense of metaphors
Education
Indigenous
education
Miscellaneous Links
Nice
range of quotes on metaphor from the late Ray Paton’s site
More
quotes
Language
of metaphors: Teacher and student resources to aid in learning,
understanding and effective use of metaphor. For use in independent
studies, among classmates or for sheer entertainment!
Metaphors
and values
Primitive
living as a metaphor
Metaphor
and spirituality
Thinking
about thought
Holism
and Mechanism
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