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| | Metaphor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In his book, "Guru: Metaphors from a psychotherapist", Sheldon Kopp states: | | | Many conservatives believe in a "strict father" type of family whilst a lot of liberals see the family as a nurturing and educating social institution. | | | For example, some religions see life as a single arrow pointing toward a future endpoint. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
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| | Mixing Memory: Lakoff's View of Metaphors |
| | A second aspect of Lakoff's theory of conceptual metaphors is that the metaphors themselves are embodied. | | | However, these once metaphorical terms have become lexacalized within the domain of arguments, and carry little or no connection to their former domain when used in the newer one. | | | Actually, I was speaking of the meaning of the words (which is where Lakoff gets his idea of metaphor in the first place), when I said that arguments can literally be struggles. |
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http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2004/09/lakoffs-view-of-metaphors.html
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| | Brown/Making Truth: Metaphor in Science. Chapter 3 |
| | The italicized words in each case reveal the metaphorical conception of an argument as a construction. | | | Note that Lakoff here refers to metaphor as a conceptualization process. | | | Linguistic use of this kind is common in scientific accounts, although in some quarters it would not be considered good form in formal science communication. |
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http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/brown/ch3.html
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| | BLENDING AND METAPHOR |
| | In this article we explore the relationship between BT, CMT and the phenomena they address, arguing that the two approaches are complementary. | | | Note, though, that metaphoric counterparts don't obligatorily come from different conceptual domains or frames. | | | Because the mapping is principled, ignorance is associated with darkness as well as other conditions which preclude sight. |
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http://markturner.org/blendaphor.html
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| | But there is a subtler reading of this scene, according to which the rule of King John is being portrayed as fundamentally unstable. | | | In Shakespeare's King John, a messenger enters, looking fearful, and the King, reading the disturbance in his face, says: | | | For example, there is intuitive appeal to the assumption that words like "safe," "dolphin," shark," and "child" correspond to basic meanings, and that when we combine these words, we combine their meanings according to a straightforward logic of compositionality. |
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http://philosophy.uoregon.edu/metaphor/turner.htm
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| | Metaphor - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | When we use a metaphor very often and people forget the old meaning, or forget the two meanings are connected, this is a "dead metaphor". | | | This page was last changed at 12:59, 16 March 2006. | | | Spam is an example that any email user knows about - this word was originally a metaphor, from "spam", a tinned meat people do not usually like. |
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http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
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| | PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. |
| | Although they are on different topics and were written, apparently, in ignorance of each another, both of them lay great stress on the tendency among analytic patients (and probably among human beings in general) to confuse metaphoric resemblance and literal identity. | | | Since, moreover, the theory has a great deal to say about all manifestations of language, it is likely to shed significant light both on the nature of the psychoanalytic dialogue and on the nature of psychoanalytic theory itself. | | | The theory of conceptual metaphor, which holds that much--or perhaps most--human thinking is essentially metaphorical in nature, has been one of the most influential intellectual developments of the last quarter century. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_melnick02.shtml
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| | New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics |
| | The question, then, is where do these properties come from, how do we derive them? | | | This means that we claim that imagining for speaking is language-specific, based on the lexical concepts of a given language. | | | Metaphor theory and conceptual blending theory in particular have placed mappings and projections at the centre of linguistic meaning, grammar, understanding and meaning construction in general across diverse domains of human thought. |
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http://www.cogling.org.uk/ThemeConceptualProjection.htm
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| | PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. |
| | Metaphor can only be important for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis if it is in the mind, not only in language. | | | Metaphors can thus be said to pervade and structure many aspects of not only language but also cultural reality. | | | These metaphors are meaningful only to the people who have had those experiences and have the preoccupations on which the metaphors are based. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_kovecses01.shtml
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| | Conceptual metaphor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Indeed, if conceptual metaphors are as basic as all of them seem to think, they may literally have no choice in doing so. | | | Such critics tend to see Lakoff and Chomsky and Jacobs as 'left-wing figures', and would not accept their politics as any kind of crusade against an ontology embedded in language and culture, but rather, as an idiosyncratic pastime, not part of the science of linguistics nor of much use. | | | There are numerous ways in which this process of assuming and applying metaphors has been said to manipulate human perception and communication, especially in mass media and in public policy. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor
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| | Metaphor Center |
| | Focused on the humanistic psychological and spiritual aspects of metaphor theory. | | | Death is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, Criticism The complete text of this book by Mark Turner is now available on the web. | | | Metaphor Home Page at the Dublin City University is one of the best sites summarizing some of the metaphor literature on the net. |
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http://zakros.ucsd.edu/~trohrer/metaphor/oldmetsite/metaphor.htm
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| | Metaphor Links |
| | She discusses ways to overcome entrenched metaphors operating as perceptual filters (e.g., overcoming Argument is Combat). | | | It is devoted to the use of metaphor (including analogy, simile and comparison) in the teaching of writing. | | | This seems to be a hyperlink-enhanced version of Lakoff's chapter in Ortony (1993) which is a compact presentation of a lot of basic work on metaphor. |
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http://www.metaresolution.com/links-metaphor.htm
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| | Conceptual Metaphor Home Page |
| | There's also a list of references you might be interested in. | | | Ongoing work in the metaphor system of English and other languages is made available here using a hypertext format which allows the reader to trace links between metaphors and thus get a better idea of the structure of the system. | | | And there's an excellent metaphor site at University of Oregon. |
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http://cogsci.berkeley.edu/lakoff
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| | Metaphors in Various Disciplines |
| | 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) | | | Death is the Mother of Beauty: mind, metaphor, criticism - Mark Turner, University of Chicago Press, 1987 | | | Associate Professor, University of Miami School of Law. |
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/metasites.htm
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