You may also be interested in
several recent articles on the neuroimaging and neurobiology
of conceptual metaphor, image schemata and similar phenomena,
including links to fMRI imagery and some ERP brain movies (by Tim
Rohrer and collaborators; large images, slow-loading; pdf articles
only).
Note: These related sites are roughly organized in terms of
their relevance to Lakoff-Johnson metaphor theory or Fauconnier-Turner
style conceptual blending. Sites farther down in the list may come from
differing theoretical perspectives or are less theoretical in nature.
You might want to look at the old metaphor
site at the University of Oregon, which is a fine example of bit
rot with many of its links no longer functioning. Sad, but this is
what happens when a website's principal caretaker moves on.
Incidentally, it is what remains of the old metaphor.uoregon.edu site.
Teenie Matlock is doing research on metaphors and image schemata
within psychology. Her dissertation aimed at finding empirical
evidence for fictive motion metapors. Click on the innocuous "More
about me" link to find a trove of papers, including one on spatial
metaphors and the web.
Seana Coulson
has placed a number of her blending papers onto the web.
From UCSD cognitive science community comes COGLING, a discussion list for the cognitive
linguistics community. Covers much more than mere metaphor:
conceptual blending, cognitive grammar, cognitive phonology, etc.
Highly recommended is the Journal of
Metaphor and Symbolic Activity special issue on metaphor theory
guest edited by Mark
Johnson. This issue contains articles by Steven Winter, Michele Emanatian, Thomas
Leddy, Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier.
John Barnden has developed a metaphors of
mind databank which contains real-discourse examples of
metaphorical descriptions of mental states and processes. It also
contains some examples of the use of metonymy in mental state
descriptions. The databank also points to related research papers on
metaphors of mind and on an implemented system for metaphor-based
reasoning about beliefs.
The Hypertext Crito is an interactive
analysis of Plato's famous text which uses a touch of the
Lakoff-Johnson theory of metaphor.
Ray Paton's group at Liverpool has produced some interesting work on
biological
metaphors for computing. Also has a good list of related links
if you dig around.
The MIT Artificial Intelligence laboratory has been
taking the Lakoff-Johnson claims about metaphor and the embodiment
of human reason very seriously. Lynn Andrea Stein and Rodney Brooks
head a robot project designed to explore the argument that human-like
intelligence requires human-like embodiment. Here is a link to the
Human Cognition Project at MIT's AI lab. Click on Cog. The nuts
and bolts of the Stein and Brooks' proposal is found in
Building Brains for Bodies.