Links to Berkeley Cognitive Science Metaphor Index

The links to the "Berkeley Files" are to a website created some years ago at the University of California, Berkeley, where a considerable amount of research has been done on metaphor. The Berkeley site contains hundreds of metaphors, listed alphabetically by Target and by Source Domains. I have sorted them according to Source Domains in the clusters created here.

 

Containing

Creating Is Moving To A Location (here)

Beliefs Are Location

Emotions Are Locations

Event Structure (location case)

Existence Is A Location (here)

States Are Locations

Ideas Are Locations

Harm Is Being In A Harmful Location

 

Difficulties Are Containers

Obligations Are Containers

Shapes Are Containers

The Body Is A Container For the Self

The Visual Field Is Container

Time Is A Container (bounded)

A Problem Is A Locked Container

Investments Are Containers For Money

 

Facts Are Points (set up in Spatial Configuration)

Darkness Is A Cover

Theories Are Covers For the Facts

External Appearance Is A Cover

Emotional Intimacy Is Physical Closeness

Properties Are Content

A Problem Is A Region In A Landscape

Time Is A Landscape We Move Through

A Problem Is A Body Of Water

States Are Shapes

Subjects Are Areas

The Visual Field Is A Bounded Region

Change Is Replacement