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.

Handling

Action Is Control Over Possessions

Creating Is Giving An Object

Perception Is Reception

Possessing Is Holding

Seeing Is Touching - Eyes Are Limbs

The Event Structure Metaphorical System

Getting Is Eating

Acting Compulsively Is Ingesting A Substance Compulsively