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| | Conceptual metaphor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Critics of this ethics-driven approach to language tend to accept that idioms reflect underlying conceptual metaphors, but that actual grammar, and the more basic cross-cultural concepts of scientific method and mathematical practice tend to minimize the impact of metaphors. | | | The Conceptual Metaphor Homepage is a catalog of a number of conceptual metaphors, and English usage that indicates them. | | | The Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online is a collection of numerous formative articles in the fields of conceptual metaphor and conceptual integration. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor
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| | Metaphor - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | Metaphor is language we use to compare things, but without using "like" or "as" - metaphor is not a simile. | | | 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. | | | Originally metaphor was a Greek word for "transfer". |
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http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
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| | Metaphor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | An active metaphor is one which by contrast to a dead metaphor, is not part of daily language and is noticeable as a metaphor. | | | A root metaphor is different from the previous types of metaphor in that it is not necessarily an explicit device in language, but a fundamental, often unconscious, assumption. | | | Workers in cognitive linguistics generally define metaphor as understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain, e.g. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
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| | In the desktop case, an action performed by the user of the computer is a single event that conceptually integrates the computer command and the manipulation of office items. | | | It is not limited to conceptual structures expressed by two-word juxtapositions any more than it is to conceptual structures expressed in metaphors like the King John example or in desktop interfaces or in non-metaphoric examples like the boat race. | | | This "two-domain" model is highly parsimonious, and it is useful and effective for a number of purposes in cognitive studies--such as the ongoing hunt for conventional conceptual metaphors. |
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http://philosophy.uoregon.edu/metaphor/turner.htm
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| | BLENDING AND METAPHOR |
| | The framework sometimes referred to as 'conceptual metaphor theory', with its origins in Lakoff and Johnson (1980), is one of the central areas of research in the more general field of cognitive linguistics. | | | Like metaphors, the conceptual blend underlying this sentence involves counterparts, construed as crucially different, which are fused in the blended space; a single entity there corresponds to a different person in each of the inputs. | | | The conventional conceptual pairings and one-way mappings studied within CMT are inputs to and constraints on the kinds of dynamic conceptual networks posited within BT. |
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http://markturner.org/blendaphor.html
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| | New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics |
| | The notions of mappings and projections of conceptual structure are pivotal to the cognitive linguistics enterprise. | | | According to the relevance-theoretic approach, the metaphorical use of language is a kind of loose use and does not require any special interpretive mechanisms or processes; it is understood in accordance with the standard procedure of evaluating the relevance of interpretive hypotheses in their order of accessibility (Sperber and Wilson 1986). | | | Similarly, understanding a metaphorical use as in ‘Jane is his anchor’ involves a broadening (of a more radical sort) of the concept encoded by ‘anchor’. |
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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. | | | Since the bringing together of the two domains into a conceptual metaphor is often motivated by sensori-motor experiences and human beings (no matter which language they speak) share these experiences, this is a level of the universal aspects of metaphor. | | | What I call the "sub-individual" level of metaphor is the level at which the conceptualization of a domain (the target) by means of another conceptual domain (the source) is made natural and motivated for speakers. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_kovecses01.shtml
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| | Brown/Making Truth: Metaphor in Science. Chapter 3 |
| | George Lakoff asserts that conceptual metaphors are not simply matters of language: "The locus of metaphor is not in language at all, but in the way we conceptualize one mental domain in terms of another. | | | The metaphorical underpinnings of our conceptual systems are evidenced in our use of language, but according to conceptual metaphor theory, metaphor is much more than a matter of just language. | | | As we have seen, the theory of conceptual metaphor is based on the idea that our thinking, language, and actions are based in large measure on a metaphorically structured conceptual system. |
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http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/brown/ch3.html
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| | Metaphor Links |
| | Defines metaphors and how they work, and provides examples of metaphors involving computers. | | | www-personal.umich.edu is Metaphors We Compute By, by John M. Lawler. | | | This material is well developed in terms of spatial metaphor and offers teaching and learning tools and many suggestions for its use. |
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http://www.metaresolution.com/links-metaphor.htm
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| | Mixing Memory: Lakoff's View of Metaphors |
| | The reply to this criticism from the conceptual metaphor camp is usually that the direction of the metaphors, from more embodied to less embodied concepts, is important in determining what conceptual mappings are chosen. | | | Obviously, we are embodied agents, and all of our conceptual representations are influenced by this embodiment, but there is no evidence that this influence is metaphorical, or that the relationships between concepts move in a single direction (from more embodied to less so). | | | While Lakoff summarizes conceptual metaphor theory in the first few chapters of Moral Politics, it's possible that many people who have not read his previous works on conceptual metaphors do not completely understand what Lakoff means when he says that our concepts are metaphorical. |
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http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2004/09/lakoffs-view-of-metaphors.html
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| | Metaphor Center |
| | The Conceptual Metaphor Home Page at the University of California at Berkeley Institute of Cognitive Studies has a version of the Master Metaphor List in HTML format. | | | Metaphor Home Page at the Dublin City University is one of the best sites summarizing some of the metaphor literature on the net. | | | CMA-squared, a conference on Computation for Metaphors, Analogy and Agents was held 6-10 April 1998 in Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan. |
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http://zakros.ucsd.edu/~trohrer/metaphor/oldmetsite/metaphor.htm
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| | Metaphors in Various Disciplines |
| | Memory Metaphors and the Laboratory/Real-life Controversyy: Correspondence versus Storehouse Views of Memory - unedited preprint (not a quotable final draft) of: Koriat, A. and Goldsmith, M. Memory metaphors and the real-life/laboratory controversy: Correspondence versus storehouse conceptions of memory. | | | 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 |
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/metasites.htm
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| | Conceptual Metaphor Home Page |
| | 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. | | | This server is a research tool for cognitive scientists and others interested in the study of conceptual metaphor systems. | | | There's also a list of references you might be interested in. |
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http://cogsci.berkeley.edu/lakoff
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| | PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. |
| | As these three essays demonstrate, the theory of conceptual metaphor both fosters greater awareness of the phenomenon and provides a new conceptualization (or contextualization) of it, thus creating the possibility of deeper, more acute understanding. | | | One small example, related to work that I am currently engaged in, has to do with the insightful but somewhat idiosyncratic psychoanalytic thinker Ignacio Matte Blanco. | | | Although the theory originated in cognitive linguistics, it has far-reaching implications for all the human sciences, including psychoanalysis. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_melnick02.shtml
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