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Sci-Phi Pilot: A Language of Metaphors
How to build metaphors and how to use metaphors as learning tools.
http://knowgramming.com/metaphors
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Analogy, Metaphor, and Integration
A series of talks and discussions at UCSD in 1998, by Gilles Fauconnier, Douglas Hofstadter, Ray Gibbs, George Lakoff, and others.
http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~faucon/secondp.html
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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.
http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/metaphor.html
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The Frequency of Original Metaphors in Literary and Nonliterary Texts
Presentation of an undergraduate's research, with reference to concreteness, conventionality and implicit formulation.
http://www.woordenboer.nl/metafoor/abstract.htm
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Notes Towards the Analysis of Metaphor
Two strategies for a systematic procedure to reconstruct metaphorical concepts and metaphorical reasoning in everyday language.
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-00/1-00schmitt-e.htm
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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
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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
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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.
http://www.metaphorik.de/04/nerlich.htm
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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.
http://www.metaphorik.de/02/jaekel.htm
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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/
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