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.

Seeing

Creating Is Making Visible

Existence Is Visibility

Hope Is Light

Ideas Are Light Sources

Intelligence Is A Light

Strong Emotion Is Blinding

Ideas Are Perceptions  

 

Seeing Is Touching - Eyes Are Limbs