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.
Metaphors
Not Easily Placed in Existing Clusters
Bodily
States/Qualities -- Heat, Warmth, Cold, Madness, Hunger...
Intoxication Is Becoming Electrified
Resources: Wealth, Money
Well-being Is Wealth
Time Is Money
Time Is A Resource
Ideas Are Resources
War: Weapons, Destruction, Injury, Target, Aggression, Fighting, Competition, Race
Words Are Weapons
Sexuality is an offensive weapon
Treating Illness Is Fighting A War
Competition Is War
A Problem Is A Target
Intoxication Is Getting Destroyed
Harm Is Physical Injury
Effects Of Humor Are Injuries
Competition Is 1 On 1 Physical Aggression
Difficult Subjects Are Adversaries
Time Is A Pursuer
Theoretical Debate Is Competition
Gaining Physical Intimacy (against Resistance) Is a Competition
Competition Is A Race
Complex Materials: Cloth, Covers, Machine, Batteries, Computer, Puzzle, Tangle, Fashion, Smoke, Fog, Genes, Food, Nourishment
Theories Are Cloth
The Mind Is A Machine
Problem Is A Tangle
People Are Machines
People Are Batteries
Ideas Are Food
Ideas Are Fashions
Lustful Person Is An Activated Machine
Complex Operation: Accounting, Writing, Commercial Transaction, Cultivation, Life Cycle, Kinship, Inheritance, Disease, Life, Harmony, Climate, Magic
Social Accounting
Moral Accounting
Mental Accounting
Relationship Is Kinship
Love Is Magic
Interpersonal Harmony is Musical Harmony
Ideas Are Writing
External Conditions Are Climate
Existence Is Life
Dangerous Beliefs Are Contagious
Creation Is Cultivation
Conducting Research Is Solving a Puzzle
Causation Is Commercial Transaction
Living Entities: People, Children, Animals, Plants
Theories Are People (w.r.t. Opinions)
Theories Are People (w.r.t. Family Tree Structure)
Machines Are People
Ideas Are Children (w.r.t. Development)
Hope Is A Child
Aspects Of The Self Are Distinct Individuals
People Are Plants
Lustful Person Is An Animal
Properties: Purity, Liquid, Fluid, Linear, Cleanliness, Inflation
Comparison Of Properties Is Comparison of
Physical Properties
Properties Are Physical Properties
Morality Is Purity
Morality Is Cleanliness
Money Is A Liquid
Light Is A Line
Light Is A Fluid
Conceit Is Inflation
Obstacles: Burden, External Event [but see above, ...], Resistance, Adversary
Intoxication Is Getting A Burden
Interaction Between Progress And External Events Affecting
Uncategorized:
Causal Precedence Is Temporal Precedence Communication Is Linguistic Communication Comparing And Seeking Is Shopping Creating Is Making Disparity Is Change Effect On Emotional Self Is Contact With Physical Self Necessary Prerequisite For Change Is Source of Moving Entity Receiving Serious Thought Is Being On The Mind Time Is A Changer