Surf these sites: Conceptual Metaphor Home Page -- Catalogue of examples of common metaphors maintained by George Lakoff. Death is the Mother of Beauty -- Online text of the book by Mark Turner. Goodman''s Theory of Metaphor -- A discussion at the University of Chicago Philosophy Project to discuss Nelson Goodman''s theory of metaphor, begun by Jonathan Cohen with the essay `Nominalism and Transference''. Implications of Cognitive Science for Moral Education -- Article by Jonathan Rethorst. Metaphor: From Plato to the Postmodernists -- Explores the role of metaphor in Plato''s texts, postmodernist works, culture, and technology. Narrative and Metaphor -- Online resource supporting a graduate course in English literature by Mark Turner. The course emphasises the role of narrative in our reasoning processes. The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor -- Article by George Lakoff, to appear in `Metaphor and Thought'' (1992). Discusses poetic metaphor from a cognitive science perspective. The Narrative Act: Wittgenstein and Narratology -- In this article, Henry McDonald develops distinctions between aspects of narrative, drawing on the work of the later Wittgenstein.
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