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* Todesl D. (2009) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/462036a Global Darwin: Contempt for Competition.] ''Nature'' 462:36-37.
** Example of how metaphor interpretations can differ.  In this case, Darwin's metaphor, "struggle for existence".
* Gibbs RW Jr. (ed.) (2008) ''The Cambridge Handbook Metaphor and Thought''. Twenty-Eight Chapters. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-43376-4. | [http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521841061 Information about this book.] | [http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/41061/excerpt/9780521841061_excerpt.pdf Introduction, downloadable PDF file.]
* Gibbs RW Jr. (ed.) (2008) ''The Cambridge Handbook Metaphor and Thought''. Twenty-Eight Chapters. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-43376-4. | [http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521841061 Information about this book.] | [http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/41061/excerpt/9780521841061_excerpt.pdf Introduction, downloadable PDF file.]
* Lakoff G. (1993) [http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~market/semiotic/lkof_met.html The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor.]
** <b>Excerpt:</b>&nbsp;The generalizations governing poetic metaphorical expressions are not in language, but in thought: They are general map pings across conceptual domains. Moreover, these general principles which take the form of conceptual mappings, apply not just to novel poetic expressions, but to much of ordinary everyday language. In short, the locus of metaphor is not in language at all, but in the way we conceptualize one mental domain in terms of another.


* Carlos Cornejo. (2007) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067X07082806  Review Essay: Conceptualizing Metaphors versus Embodying the Language: Kövecses, Zoltán, Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation.] ''Culture Psychology'' 13:474-488.
* Carlos Cornejo. (2007) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067X07082806  Review Essay: Conceptualizing Metaphors versus Embodying the Language: Kövecses, Zoltán, Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation.] ''Culture Psychology'' 13:474-488.


* Gregory L. Murphy(1996) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(96)00711-1 On metaphoric representation.] ''Cognition'' 60:173-204.
* Feldman JA. (2006) ''From molecule to metaphor: a neural theory of language.'' Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 0262062534. | [http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/news/2006/ICSI_Gazette_v5n1.pdf Downloadable review by the International Computer Science Institute (page 5)] | [http://m2mbook.org/reviews/CompLing2007.pdf Downloadable review by Stefan Frank, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Radboud University Nijmegen]
 
** <b>From the book´s Preface:</b>&nbsp;"This book proposes to begin integrating current insights from many disciplines into a coherent ''neural theory of language''. Extensive discussions of role of metaphor.
* Todesl D. (2009) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/462036a Global Darwin: Contempt for Competition.] ''Nature'' 462:36-37.
** Example of how metaphor interpretations can differ.  In this case, Darwin's metaphor, "struggle for existence".


* Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke. (2001) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09526950122120952 Mind, meaning and metaphor: the philosophy and psychology of metaphor in 19th-century Germany.] ''History of the Human Sciences'' 14:39-61.
* Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke. (2001) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09526950122120952 Mind, meaning and metaphor: the philosophy and psychology of metaphor in 19th-century Germany.] ''History of the Human Sciences'' 14:39-61.
** '''From Abstract:'''&nbsp;This article explores a German philosophy of metaphor, which proposed a close link between the body and the mind as the basis for metaphor, debunked the view that metaphor is just a decorative rhetorical device and questioned the distinction between the literal and the figurative….thinkers contributed to a philosophy and psychology of the metaphoric according to which metaphors are not only nice, but necessary for the structure and growth of human thought and language. Obvious parallels between this 19th-century philosophy of metaphor and the 20th-century theory of metaphor developed by Lakoff and his followers.
** '''From Abstract:'''&nbsp;This article explores a German philosophy of metaphor, which proposed a close link between the body and the mind as the basis for metaphor, debunked the view that metaphor is just a decorative rhetorical device and questioned the distinction between the literal and the figurative….thinkers contributed to a philosophy and psychology of the metaphoric according to which metaphors are not only nice, but necessary for the structure and growth of human thought and language. Obvious parallels between this 19th-century philosophy of metaphor and the 20th-century theory of metaphor developed by Lakoff and his followers.


* Feldman JA. (2006) ''From molecule to metaphor: a neural theory of language.'' Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 0262062534. [http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/news/2006/ICSI_Gazette_v5n1.pdf Downloadable review by the International Computer Science Institute (page 5)] | [http://m2mbook.org/reviews/CompLing2007.pdf Downloadable review by Stefan Frank, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Radboud University Nijmegen]
* Gregory L. Murphy.  (1996) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(96)00711-1 On metaphoric representation.] ''Cognition'' 60:173-204.
** <b>From the book´s Preface:</b>&nbsp;"This book proposes to begin integrating current insights from many disciplines into a coherent ''neural theory of language''. Extensive discussions of role of metaphor.
 
* Lakoff G. (1993) [http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~market/semiotic/lkof_met.html The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor.]
** <b>Excerpt:</b>&nbsp;The generalizations governing poetic metaphorical expressions are not in language, but in thought: They are general map pings across conceptual domains. Moreover, these general principles which take the form of conceptual mappings, apply not just to novel poetic expressions, but to much of ordinary everyday language. In short, the locus of metaphor is not in language at all, but in the way we conceptualize one mental domain in terms of another.

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  • Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke. (2001) Mind, meaning and metaphor: the philosophy and psychology of metaphor in 19th-century Germany. History of the Human Sciences 14:39-61.
    • From Abstract: This article explores a German philosophy of metaphor, which proposed a close link between the body and the mind as the basis for metaphor, debunked the view that metaphor is just a decorative rhetorical device and questioned the distinction between the literal and the figurative….thinkers contributed to a philosophy and psychology of the metaphoric according to which metaphors are not only nice, but necessary for the structure and growth of human thought and language. Obvious parallels between this 19th-century philosophy of metaphor and the 20th-century theory of metaphor developed by Lakoff and his followers.
  • Lakoff G. (1993) The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor.
    • Excerpt: The generalizations governing poetic metaphorical expressions are not in language, but in thought: They are general map pings across conceptual domains. Moreover, these general principles which take the form of conceptual mappings, apply not just to novel poetic expressions, but to much of ordinary everyday language. In short, the locus of metaphor is not in language at all, but in the way we conceptualize one mental domain in terms of another.