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• Analogy, Metaphor, and Integration

  http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~faucon/secondp.html
  A series of talks and discussions at UCSD in 1998, by Gilles Fauconnier, Douglas Hofstadter, Ray Gibbs, George Lakoff, and others.

• Barnden, John - ATT-Meta Project

  http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab/ATT-Meta/
  Research project which simulates reasoning about mental states and metaphor in a rule-based system. Various papers and a metaphor databank.

• Cyberspace is a Parallel World, a Metaphor Analysis

  http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/metaphor.html
  This paper examines some of the metaphors that have evolved as we have incorporated computer technology into our lives.

• Forceville, Charles

  http://www.semioticon.com/people/forceville.htm
  Cognitive linguist with a special interest in visual metaphors.

• From Icon to Metaphor

  http://www.cogweb.ucla.edu/Abstracts/Goldwasser_95.html
  Abstract of Orly Goldwasser's book 'From Icon to Metaphor: Studies in the Semiotics of the Hieroglyphs'.

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

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

• Metaphor: From Plato to the Postmodernists

  http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/cpace/theory/seidel/homepage.html
  Explores the role of metaphor in Plato's texts, postmodernist works, culture, and technology.

• Notes Towards the Analysis of Metaphor

  http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-00/1-00schmitt-e.htm
  Two strategies for a systematic procedure to reconstruct metaphorical concepts and metaphorical reasoning in everyday language.

• Olson Zaltman Associates

  http://www.olsonzaltman.com/
  A research and consulting firm which uses the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET) to reveal the consumers' subconscious motivation.

• Sci-Phi Pilot: A Language of Metaphors

  http://knowgramming.com/metaphors
  How to build metaphors and how to use metaphors as learning tools.

• The Frequency of Original Metaphors in Literary and Nonliterary Texts

  http://www.woordenboer.nl/metafoor/abstract.htm
  Presentation of an undergraduate's research, with reference to concreteness, conventionality and implicit formulation.

• Tracking the fate of the metaphor silent spring in British environmental discourse: Towards an evolutionary ecology of metaphor

  http://www.metaphorik.de/04/nerlich.htm
  Article in metaphorik.de by Brigitte Nehrlich.

• Turner, Mark

  http://markturner.org/
  Expert in cognitive metaphor, conceptual blending and other areas of communication and creativity. Book descriptions, selected articles and links.

• Wikipedia - Metaphor

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
  Definitions and examples of metaphor, simile, dead metaphors and mixed metaphors.

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