Metaphor Websites

Expert in cognitive metaphor, conceptual blending and other areas of communication and creativity. Book descriptions, selected articles and links.

How to build metaphors and how to use metaphors as learning tools.

A series of talks and discussions at UCSD in 1998, by Gilles Fauconnier, Douglas Hofstadter, Ray Gibbs, George Lakoff, and others.

This paper examines some of the metaphors that have evolved as we have incorporated computer technology into our lives.

Two strategies for a systematic procedure to reconstruct metaphorical concepts and metaphorical reasoning in everyday language.

Article in metaphorik.de by Brigitte Nehrlich.

Research project which simulates reasoning about mental states and metaphor in a rule-based system. Various papers and a metaphor databank.

Definitions and examples of metaphor, simile, dead metaphors and mixed metaphors.

Cognitive linguist with a special interest in visual metaphors.