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.
Locomotion
Movement/Motion (unspecified direction)
Change Is Motion (location)
[link to Containing]
Difficulty Is Difficulty
In Moving [link to Obstacles]
Directional Motion
Change Of State Is Change of
Direction
Harm Is Preventing Forward Motion
Toward A Goal
The Progress Of External Events Is
Forward Motion
Time Is Something Moving Toward You
Self-Propelled Motion
Action Is Self-propelled Motion
Self-initiated Change Of State Is Self-propelled
Motion
Controlled
Causation Is Control Over An Entity
Relative To A Location
Causation Is Control Over An Object
Relative To A Possession
Causation Is Control Over Relative Location
Path
Journey
Long-term Purposeful Activity Is A Journey
Long-term Purposeful Change is A Journey
Forces
[will this be Causality? I think so]
Desires Are Forces Between The Desired
And The Desirer
External Events Affecting Progress Are
Forces Affecting
Knowledge Of Past Events Is An
External Event Exerting Force On