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Metaphors in Various Disciplines

Bibliography of text-based metaphor resources  |  Poetry Resources

Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online - numerous resources and bibliographies

Conceptual Metaphor Home Page - George Lakoff

Death is the Mother of Beauty: mind, metaphor, criticism -  Mark Turner, University of Chicago Press, 1987

Do Metaphors Make Web Browsers Easier to Use? - Elissa D. Smilowitz

Ecologies of Technical Metaphors and the Theme of Control - Dvora Yanov, San Jose State University, Society for Philosophy & Technology, Volume 1, Number 3 and 4 (in Digital Library and Archives)

Force and action: causal metaphors in the works of Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669).Copyright, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Knowledge Is Not Infrastructure: Applying Metaphorical Lessons From Complexity Science - Michael Lissack Presented to the the London School of Economics Seminar Series on Complexity, February 13, 1997

Lakeoff on conceptual Metaphor

Making Sense of Metaphors: Visuality, Aurality,  and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse - Professor Bernard J. Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Memory Metaphors and the Laboratory/Real-life Controversyy: Correspondence versus Storehouse Views of Memory -  unedited preprint (not a quotable final draft) of: Koriat, A. & Goldsmith, M. (1996). Memory metaphors and the real-life/laboratory controversy: Correspondence versus storehouse conceptions of memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (2): 167-228.

Metaphor - a propositional comment and an invitation to intimacy - Dr. Ana Marjanovic-Shane

Metaphor and Symbol - a quarterly journal - Bladen LIbrary, Univ. of Toronto

Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf- George Lakoff

Metaphors & Schemas in Design - Derek Sisson

Metaphor in Scientific Thinking - Ray Paton (extensive list of metaphor resources)

Metaphor, Metonymy, and Binding -  Mark Turner, Gilles Fauconnier "In preparation for Metonymy and Metaphor. Edited by Antonio Barcelona. Mouton de Gruyter.  A volume in the series Topics in English Linguistics"

Metaphor Project - the English Teachers' Tool Bag

Metaphors in Language and Thought - The Institute of Cognitive Studies

Metaphors We Compute By - John M. Lawler-  lecture delivered to the Informational Technology Division of the University of Michigan

Metaphors we compute by: bringing magic into interface design - Tim Rohrer

Metaphors We Live By - George Lakoff, Mark Johnson - Review by Felice Aull, Ph.D

MetaSelf - a Metaphor Model of the Self

On The Search for Metaphors - Michael Johnson, School of Mathematics and Computing, Macquarie University

On-line discussions re: metaphors

The Metaphor and Metonymy Group - formed at Nottingham University in 1996 and consists of Dr. Brigitte Nerlich and Dr. David D Clarke at Nottingham, Zazie Todd at the University of Leicester, and a number of associate members (conferences, links, abstracts, papers)

THE METAPHOR IS THE KEY: CRYPTOGRAPHY,THE CLIPPER CHIP, AND THE CONSTITUTION - 1995, A. Michael Froomkin,. Associate Professor, University of Miami School of Law.

The Stanford HCI Design Learning Space: Metaphor (computer interface metaphors)

Symbolic Modelling and the Metaphor Therapy and Clean Language of David Grove - Penny Tompkins, James Lawley and others

Symposium: Theories and Metaphors of Cyberspace

Writing About Metaphors in Your Discipline - Virginia Montecino (college advanced composition)

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Metaphors and Poetry

British Poetry - 1780-1910 - a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions at the Electronic Text Center, Alderman Library, University of Virginia

Carolyn Forche', the poet, and her list of poetry resources

Poems That Go - using technologies like Flash, Shockwave, Quicktime, DHTML and JavaScript, to  expand the space of the poem expands and stretch it beyond the word.

Poetry - A click and drag diversion

University of Virginia Electronic Text "Library"

Bibliography of Text-based Metaphors in Arts and Sciences

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