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  Wikipedia - Metaphor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
Definitions and examples of metaphor, simile, dead metaphors and mixed metaphors.
  Turner, Mark http://markturner.org/
Expert in cognitive metaphor, conceptual blending and other areas of communication and creativity. Book descriptions, selected articles and links.
  Conceptual Metaphor Home Page http://cogsci.berkeley.edu/lakoff/
Catalogue of common metaphors maintained by George Lakoff.
  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.
  metaphorik.de http://www.metaphorik.de/english/english.htm
Online journal on metaphor and metonymy. Published twice a year. Articles and reviews in German, English, and French.
  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.
  Forceville, Charles http://www.semioticon.com/people/forceville.htm
Cognitive linguist with a special interest in visual metaphors.
  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.
  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.
  Hamburg Metaphor Database http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/metaphern/index_en.html
Metaphors collected by master students and documented in their theses, organized by semantic fields.
  Sci-Phi Pilot: A Language of Metaphors http://knowgramming.com/metaphors
How to build metaphors and how to use metaphors as learning tools.
  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.
  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'.
  Metaphors and Computers http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/srb/srb/metaphorscomp.html
Review of J.H. Martin's computational metaphor interpretation model MIDAS.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.

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