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Table of Contents
For each line in the table,
- click on the TEXT to go to a DESCRIPTION of the metaphor(s)/metonymies
- click on the
symbol to go to the
relevant EXAMPLES page
You may wish to consult the following:
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Ideas as
External Entities
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Ideas as
External Utterances
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Ideas as
Internal Utterances
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Ideas as
Persons or other Animate Beings
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Ideas
as Physical Objects
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Ideas
as Physical Spaces
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Ideas as
Possessions
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Ideas
as Sharable Commodities
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Mind as
World-Definer (Ideas as Models)
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Mind
as Animate Being or Living Body
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Mind Parts as
Persons or other Animate Beings
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Mind as
Physical Object -- Miscellaneous
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Mind as
Physical Space
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Emotional-Mind
as Physical Space (this category has been abandoned)
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Cognizing
as Interacting with Non-Own-Mental Entities
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Cognizing as
Physical Sensing (with some exceptions)
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Cognizing as Seeing
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Miscellaneous Mental Metaphors
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Undetermined Mental Metaphors
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NON-Mental Metaphors
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Metonymy (with comments on
metaphor as well)
Questions? Email jabarnden@btinternet.com
Many of the metaphor descriptions accessible through the above table are based on the following article.
Somewhat fuller discussion of some of the metaphors appears there.
Barnden, J.A. (1997):
``Consciousness and common-sense metaphors of mind.''
In S. O'Nuallain, P. McKevitt \& E. Mac Aogain (Eds),
Two Sciences of Mind:
Readings in Cognitive Science And Consciousness, pp.311-340.
John Benjamin.
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