- ATT-Meta Project Databank: Examples of Usage of Metaphors of Mind
 - Database of real-discourse examples of metaphorical descriptions of mental states and processes. from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the UK (EPSRC). - Cognitive Science of Metaphor from Philosophy to Neuropsychology
- Paper reviewing theoretical issues surrounding metaphor, through the context of the cognitive neuroscience debate. From the University of Oregon.
- Extended Metaphor Exercise
- Describes extended metaphor and illustrates the linguistic device through example poems by Robert Francis, A.R. Ammons, and D.H. Lawrence.
- Forest of Rhetoric: Metaphor
- A short definition of metaphor, with examples and definitions for related words like simile and catachresis. From Brigham Young University.
- Introduction to Metaphor
- Overview of the linguistic device of metaphor, which compares two apparently unlike objects. Covers the common and constructions of metaphors like appositional, adjectival, compound, and possessive noun metaphors.
- Lakoff on Conceptual Metaphor
- Scholarly work from linguist George Lakoff a contemporary theory of metaphor.
- Language of Metaphors, A
- Metaphor resources for teachers and students. Depicts metaphor types, such as funny metaphors and sensory metaphors. Also includes metaphor exercises.
- Metaphor Project
- Project aiming to build a collection of metaphors and analogies that English teachers can use to explain processes and abstract ideas to their students.
- Metaphors in Text Semantics: Problems and Prospects
- Paper reviewing theories of metaphor and attempts to train computers to recognise or produce metaphoric content. From Stockholm University.
- MetaSelf
- Examines how common spatial metaphors ("back of mind," etc) comprise a model of the self. With lesson plans combining psychology, virtues, and cognitive linguistics.
- Multiple Selves
- Paper by academic linguist George Lakoff on metaphorical models of the self. From the Conceptual Self in Context Conference at Emory University in 1992.
- Visual Metaphor, Cultural Knowledge, and the New Rhetoric
- Essay discussing the distinction between the verbal metaphors used by print cultures and the visual metaphors used by many oral cultures. From Learn in Beauty: Indigenous Education for a New Century.
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