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	Metaphors We Live By, Lakoff and Johnson
		Metaphors We Live By has led many readers to a new recognition of how profoundly metaphors not only shape our view of life in the present but set up the expectations that determine what life well be for us in the future.
		The concept is metaphorically structured, the activity is metaphorically structured, and, consequently, the language is metaphorically structured.
		Since metaphorical expressions in our language are tied to metaphorical concepts in a systematic way, we can use metaphorical linguistic expressions to study the nature of metaphorical concepts and to gain an understanding of the metaphorical nature of our activities.
	theliterarylink.com /metaphors.html (3589 words)

	Language as a Neural Process
		Language is obviously one of the most sophisticated cognitive skills that humans possess, and one of the most apparent differences between the human species and other animal species.
		Language is actually quite widespread in Nature in its primitive form of communication (all animals communicate and even plants have some rudimentary form of interaction), although it is certainly unique to humans in its human form (but just like, say, chirping is unique to birds in its "birdy" form).
		Metaphor is more pervasive than we think, and it may well be the foundation of language (some linguists even claim that all language is metaphorical).
	www.thymos.com /science/language.html (1491 words)

	Metaphorical Language Encyclopedia Information @ Karr.net (Karr Network) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Metaphorical language is a term referring to the use of a complex system of metaphors to create a sub-language within a common language which provides the basic terms (verbs, prepositions, conjunctions) to express metaphors.
		Not just conceptual metaphors (part of every language) that express belief in analogy between generic concepts, but extremely specific metaphors involving proper names or use of concrete nouns to express generics or processes.
		Use of metaphorical language was historically common among secret society devotees, for instance the Chinese Tongs that resisted Imperial rulers, Sufi tarikas that spread Islam under hostile rulers, and even some modern troll organizations.
	216.92.11.9 /encyclopedia/Metaphorical_language (684 words)

	Biblespeak (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Biblespeak is a euphemism for a kind of discourse which frames concepts and language in highly Biblical or otherwise religious terms.
		As a language like English, may be a vehicle for biblespeak, the use of religious metaphor carries an implied stipulation to biblical concepts, thus tolerating little inclusion for outside terms, such as those used in psychology for example.
		In a sense, biblespeak is a metaphorical language in its own right, because it's heavily dependent on a source, such as the Bible as a common reference for concepts; often these concepts are metaphysical (spiritual) in nature, and find little meaning if translated to secular otherwise common terms.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Biblespeak.html (161 words)

	Speaking in Parables: A Study in Metaphor and Theology
		Language, all language, is ultimately traceable to metaphor -- it is the foundation of language and thus of thought.
		The history of language, then, is one of gradual distancing from this unity; the single meanings of language split into contrasted pairs -- the concrete and abstract, particular and general, objective and subjective -- and it is the poet’s burden and glory to attempt to return to this unity.
		Metaphor is the language of "a body that thinks"; it is, therefore, neither an embellishment of language nor a primitive form to be superseded by conceptual language, but the method of human thought.
	www.religion-online.org /showchapter.asp?title=452&C=365 (7085 words)

	Changing Metaphors of Education
		K Elliott, in his essay “Metaphor, Imagination and Conceptions of Imagination” discusses some of the central metaphorical associations that have traditionally been made with education, discussing several of them in light of their historical origins.
		Finally, this metaphor also resembles the “education as initiation” schema, since leading someone down a path to a desired and normative goal is a fitting description not only for education in the “guidance” metaphorical schema, but initiation processes in general.
		However, their subject matter is often excluded from the canon and their language reflects this exclusion by using physical metaphor to situate it outside the traditional bounded area of literary study.
	www2.potsdam.edu /mausdc/class/601/metaphor.html (3030 words)

	Thinking About Thought: Consciousness, Life and Meaning
		In metaphorical language, two concepts are combined so that they form a new concept (e.g., marriage as a nightmare) and additionally they change each other (both "marriage" and "nightmare" acquire a different meaning, one reflecting the nightmarish aspects of marriage and the other one reflecting the marriage-like quality of a nightmare).
		Metaphor projects the cognitive map of a domain (the vehicle) onto another domain (the tenor) for the purpose of grounding the latter to sensory experience via the cognitive map of the former.
		Metaphor is a process that exists at three levels: a language process (from ordinary language to diaphor to epiphor back to ordinary language); a semantic and syntactic process (its linguistic explanation); and a cognitive process (to acquire new knowledge).
	www.thymos.com /tat/metaphor.html (3442 words)

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		Metaphors are not only a powerful way of allowing people to visualize a message that a person is trying to convey, but they are also a creative way of putting things that we see or think about every day into a new light.
		This, like many metaphorical comparisons, might seem like an unlikely possibility for a connection, but once she begins to explain why she feels that the media's representation of our immune system is so closely related to other social issues we are forced to take a second look.
		Mary Shelly also touched on some metaphorical language in her excerpt from her novel "Frankenstein." Although the power of language here is much more subtle there is clearly comparisons being made of what we would usually assume were completely unrelated topics.
	www.csun.edu /~jmi21639/paper3.html (1398 words)

	Developing a Metaphorical Language for the Future
		A sight-based metaphor is to be expected to yield riches in the visual culture of the West.
		Metaphoric references to any sixth sense in relation to the future tend to be confined to popular language where action on the basis of "intuition", "gut feeling" or "foreboding" is fairly common.
		Most sterile debates make full use of metaphors to trap the adversary in a polarized position from which he or she can be subdued with metaphoric weapons derived from the opposite pole.
	www.laetusinpraesens.org /docs/devlang.php (8241 words)

	Asian EFL Journal: English Language Teaching and Research Articles
		Metaphorical usage is prevalent in authentic texts and the foreign language learner when dealing with them is faced with words that carry several meanings.
		Hypothetically speaking, the acquisition process may be facilitated when the metaphorical systems are used to bring to the attention of the learner the 'generalizations governing polysemy' that are described 'in terms of conceptual organization' (Lakoff, 1987: 334) or for practical purposes exposure to the conventional usage of metaphorical expressions.
		The other metaphorical systems in the articles, that were determined from single occurrences of conventional metaphors are not dealt with in this paper, but only those found to be different or marked when translated are cited and dealt with in section 3.6 of this paper (also Table 3, Appendix E).
	www.asian-efl-journal.com /04_kk.php (4333 words)

	Enculturation: Gregory Erickson
		While this analytical language is generally acknowledged as coming out of the tonal system, it can more specifically be seen coming out of a very specific nineteenth-century German Enlightenment culture, a culture that was enamored with logic and rational scientific thought and is the basis of our privileging of scientific thought and language.
		Either (1) Metaphors are essential and characteristic of the creativity of language, or (2) Metaphors are secondary and, in a sense, parasitic to normal usage.
		She sees the usefulness in metaphors not as opening up further possibilities, but as being able to "accommodate apparent contradictions" (35), and to "explain." Ignoring the creative "play" at the center of a metaphor, she falls back on the structural assumptions inherent in formalist criticism.
	enculturation.gmu.edu /2_2/erickson.html (5360 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 40, No. 4 - January 1984 - BOOK REVIEW - Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language
		Viewed as a whole, McFague's journey charts its course "from religious language--the language of images and metaphors--to theological language--the language of models and concepts." In chapter 2 she shows that her concern with metaphor is not just a current intellectual preoccupation of the academy, but also a concern appropriate to Christianity's own scriptures.
		This is no detour from her metaphorical concerns, for a model is a sustained and systematic metaphor.
		McFague's Metaphorical Theology is one in a trilogy of substantive, wide-ranging feminist works that have appeared within the last year, joining with Rosemary Radford Ruether's Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology (1983) and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza's In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (1983).
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jan1984/v40-4-bookreview2.htm (1477 words)

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		Jane Eyre is rich in symbolic language and the author makes use of ruthless winters and heated summers to indicate and explain the intensity and the nature of incidences that marked the roller coaster ride experienced by Jane due to various ups and downs of her...
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	Wrestling With the Symbols
		Metaphor and symbol are the primary ways in which the language of the Scripture speaks of God.
		In unveiling the metaphors of Scripture, we often find that a willingness to be teased, to wrestle with an image, and to sit lightly with a given interpretation is more helpful than simply to dismiss the images we don’t like, and to keep the ones we do.
		If a given metaphor is somewhat limited, the writers do not hesitate to build on it, to pile metaphor on metaphor.
	www.willgwitt.org /Wrestling_With_Symbols.htm (1758 words)

	Metaphors in Shakespeare -Folger Shakespeare Library
		The purpose of this lesson is to deepen students' understanding of what constitutes a metaphor and enhance their understanding of how metaphorical language gives a work of literature depth, unity and complexity.
		Provide the class with examples of non-literal and metaphorical language and facilitate a general class discussion on the definition of metaphor.
		To evaluate students' comprehension of the use of metaphorical language, give students examples of metaphors from another Shakespeare play or other sources and ask students to analyze the examples.
	www.folger.edu /eduLesPlanDtl.cfm?lpid=586 (469 words)

	GCTF - The Metaphorical Language Of Creation
		The Genesis creation account is clearly metaphorical, containing many references to metaphorical language and symbols common to the culture of the ancient Israelites (you know, the original audience), with some parts of the metaphorical language being used in other places in the Bible as well.
		It is used in the context of metaphor.
		To analyze the literal meaning of individual words divorced from the metaphorical context of the account is to distort and misunderstand what is being taught.
	www.geocities.com /athens/thebes/7755/genesismetaphor.html (2706 words)

	ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan: Figurative Language: Teaching Idioms
		In this lesson, students explore figurative language with a focus on the literal versus the metaphorical translations of idioms.
		Students are more likely to understand, recall, and care about what a metaphor means after having played with the word through a highly personalized, storied exploration of their own experiences of metaphorical language.
		In this activity, students are asked to complete the sentence by selecting the correct idiom from the list, determine the metaphorical meaning of the idiom, and then use the idiom in a sentence to show their understanding of its meaning.
	www.readwritethink.org /lessons/lesson_view_printer_friendly.asp?id=254 (1204 words)

	Are God#x2019;s Hands Tied By Logic?
		3.032 It is as impossible to represent in language anything that ‘contradicts logic’ as it is in geometry to represent by its co-ordinates a figure that contradicts the laws of space, or to give the co-ordinates of a point that does not exist.
		When I state that there are necessary limits on any possible language, I do not merely mean that we would not apply the term ‘language’ to anything which does not fall within these limits—I mean that anything which is to perform the function which language performs must fall within these limits.
		When constructing a logical language, it is usual to begin by giving some rules by which well-formed formulae can be distinguished from other strings of symbols, and then to give further rules by means of which we can set apart some sub-set of the well-formed formulae, which are labeled as ‘theorems’.
	www.arsdisputandi.org /publish/articles/000102/article.htm (7773 words)

	Exploring Language: Making Comparisons [English Online]
		For example, the relationships between different European languages are very often described in terms of a family tree, with many languages descending from the ancestral language, Indo-European.
		In this analogy, languages are born and die like people; they have offspring (usually daughters) and close and distant relations.
		Exploring Language is reproduced by permission of the publishers Learning Media Limited on behalf of Ministry of Education, P O Box 3293, Wellington, New Zealand, © Crown, 1996.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/resources/exp_lang/comparisons.html (419 words)

	Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology: Sallie McFague
		Having recognized that the straight-forwardly metaphorical language of religious experience is continuous with the abstract conceptual language of systematic theology, theology must seek to overcome the tendencies toward idolatory and irrelevance which are inherent in the use of systematic, conceptual language if it is truly to operate in service of the hearing of God's word.
		The first aspect of understanding what metaphorical theology could be iscomprehension of the movement from the first order language of religiousexperience to the abstract, second order language of concepts, remembering ofcourse the essential continuity which exists between these forms of language.
		In her own substantive work, the emphases among the biblical metaphors are ignored as the iconoclastic drive of metaphorical theology works against the patriarchal models dominant in most of scripture.
	people.bu.edu /wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_909_mcfague.htm (3117 words)

	The Empirical Study Of Metaphorical Language In Poetic Texts, Detailed Information about Language study (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Metaphorical usage is prevalent in authentic texts and mounting evidence and empirical This study into the nature of metaphorical systems and between the conceptual basis of poetic language and the reaction times for words related to its metaphorical meaning.
		Between the conceptual basis of poetic language and the reaction times for words related to its metaphorical meaning.
		In an eye tracking study paragraphs of machine readable texts Metaphorical usage is prevalent in authentic texts and the foreign language This study into the nature of metaphorical systems and their pervasive nature in and advocate its usefulness in language teaching and the study of literary texts.
	www.onlinesearchdirect.com /language-study/the-empirical-study-of-metaphorical-language-in-poetic-texts.php (658 words)

	David S. Danaher, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Site not responding. Last check: )
		That Tolstoy uses metaphorical analogy systematically at crucial junctures throughout the novel and that the novel’s characters differ significantly in their own ability (or inability) to think metaphorically are two facts that seemed to have passed under the radar of most literary critics.
		This paper proposes to analyze metaphorical analogy in the novel from the perspective of the conceptual approach to metaphor developed within the framework of cognitive linguistics (the seminal work here is Lakoff and Johnson).
		A study of metaphorical analogy in the novel relates to what Jackson has called Tolstoy’s “invitation to visual judgement.” Many of the metaphors in the novel are introduced by phrases or in contexts recalling visual evaluation (kazalos') and/or intellectual judgements grounded in observation (kak budto).
	www.aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2004/abstracts/danaher.htm (374 words)

	E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore
		The first involves a movement toward a denotatively precise language of expository discourse which seeks accurate statements about the apprehensible universe, the second, a movement toward a figurative, suggestive language of imaginative discourse which points toward the sublime realm beyond sensible data.
		The language of Truth, then, is the language of Poe's reductive strategy -- the relatively (not perfectly) simple language, functional in its precision but limited in its range, that we use to make as exact a statement as possible about the sensible world.
		His definition demands a refined recognition of the limits that language places upon thought, which at its deepest levels must be the inexpressible guesswork of an "ardent imagination." These assertions about intuitive logic lead Poe to use analogical or "expansive" synonyms for the traditional terms of logic.
	www.eapoe.org /pstudies/ps1970/p1978101.htm (4520 words)

	NARRATIVE TEXTS AND IMAGES IN THE TEACHING OF
		Likewise, Turbayne has argued that all language is metaphorical and that all theories rest on a basic metaphor, however disguised.
		In his lengthy and detailed study of the metaphorical properties of the visual arts, Hausman succeeds in developing a set of isomorphic correspondences between the visual domain (art) and the verbal domain (text) to demonstrate that metaphor is a verbal and non-verbal phenomenon.
		• a sense of context of the language;
	tell.fll.purdue.edu /RLA-Archive/1992/Italian-html/Nuessel,Frank.htm (4470 words)

	demilitar
		Think of the language that sailors have brought from the sea to the land ("to know the ropes"), that urban dwellers have adapted from farms ("to put the cart before the horse"), or that people have brought home from their places of work ("to strike while the iron is hot").
		One model of formal analysis is to identify conceptual and structural metaphors and "map" the latter by showing the intended parallels between the structural metaphor and the issues under discussion.
		Sure, metaphors are helpful in enlarging our understanding of something we may already be familiar with, yet the system that allows us to comprehend one aspect of a concept in terms of another (for example, argument in terms of war) will necessarily hide some aspects of the concept.
	faculty.ed.umuc.edu /~jmatthew/articles/demilitar.html (1448 words)

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