The Chronicle of Higher Education

What’s a Metaphor For?

Writing about metaphor is dancing with your conceptual clothes off, the innards of your language exposed by equipment more powerful than anything operated by the TSA. Still, one would be a rabbit not ...
The Guardian

Metaphor map charts the images that structure our thinking

Huge project by Glasgow University researchers plots thirteen centuries of startling cognitive connections Metaphor is not the sole preserve of Shakespearean scholarship or high literary endeavour but ...
The Conversation

People with delusions understand metaphor differently – here’s how it could help explain schizophrenia

Felicity Deamer has previously received funding from the AHRC (AH/L004070/1) 2014-2016, and the Wellcome Trust (WT108720) 2016-2019. Figurative language, by which the speaker intends to communicate ...
New Scientist

Metaphorical search engine finds creative new meanings

TYPING “love” into Google, I find the Wikipedia entry, a “relationship calculator” and Lovefilm, a DVD rental service. Doing the same in YossarianLives, a new search engine due to launch this year, I ...