The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

17. Metaphor: How We Speak

  1. Standing for Something Else
  2. The Dynamics of Language
  3. Metaphorical Thought
  4. Blending Metaphors
  5. Metaphors are Fuzzy
  6. Metaphor as Meaning
  7. Metaphor As Physiological Organization
  8. Metaphor As Conceptual Blending
  9. Lying Helps Communication
  10. Metaphorical Ignorance

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Arbib, Michael: CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY (Cambridge University Press, 1986)

Black, Max: MODELS AND METAPHORS (Cornell Univ Press, 1962)

Fauconnier, Gilles: MENTAL SPACES (MIT Press, 1994)

Breal, Michel: ESSAI DE SEMANTIQUE (1897)

Hintikka, Jaakko: ASPECTS OF METAPHOR (Kluwer Academics, 1994)

Kittay, Eva: METAPHOR (Clarendon Press, 1987)

Indurkhya, Bipin: METAPHOR AND COGNITION (Kluwer Academic, 1992)

Lakoff, George: METAPHORS WE LIVE BY (Chicago Univ Press, 1980)

Lakoff, George: MORE THAN COOL REASON (University of Chicago Press, 1989)

Lakoff, George: WOMEN, FIRE AND DANGEROUS THINGS (Univ of Chicago Press, 1987)

Lakoff, George: PHILOSOPHY IN THE FLESH (Basic, 1998)

MacCormac, Earl: A COGNITIVE THEORY OF METAPHOR (MIT Press, 1985)

Martin, James: A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF METAPHOR INTERPRETATION (Academic Press, 1990)

Mithen, Steven: THE PREHISTORY OF THE MIND (Thames and Hudson, 1996)

Ortony, Andrew: METAPHOR AND THOUGHT (Cambridge Univ Press, 1979)

Richards, Ivor: THE PHILOSOPHY OF RHETORIC (Oxford Univ. Press, 1936)

Wheelwright, Philip: METAPHOR AND REALITY (1962)