Schedule

Week	Date	Topic	Reading	Assignment
1	Jan. 14	Introduction	MWLB Ch. 1-10
	Jan 16	Classical theories of metaphor		HW1: Preconceptions Due 1/23/02
	Jan 18	Introduction to conceptual metaphor theory
2	Jan 21 (MON OFF)	NO CLASS
	Jan 23	Conceptual metaphor theory	MWLB CH. 1-17; #6 (Lakoff 1993)
	Jan 25	Conceptual metaphor theory
3	Jan 28	Polysemy, homonymy	#12 (Sweetser 1990)	HW2: Metaphor basics Due 2/4/02
	Jan 30	Radial categories
	Feb 1	Polysemy and homonymy
4	Feb 4	A grounding problem	#4 (Grady 1997)
	Feb 6	Basic scenes and basic metaphors
	Feb 8	Compound, complex metaphors
5	Feb 11	Cross-linguistic dimensions of metaphor	#10 (Moore 2001)	HW3: Grounding Due 2/18/02
	Feb 13	Time across languages
	Feb 15	More time across languages
6	Feb 18	NO CLASS
	Feb 20	Metaphor in sign language	#14 (Taub 2001)
	Feb 22	Metaphor in gesture	#13 (Sweetser 1999)
7	Feb 25	Analogy	#1 (Gentner et al 2001)
	Feb 27	Metaphor and analogy
	Mar 1	Metonymy
8	Mar 4	Metaphor in science	#2 (Gentner et al 2000)
	Mar 6	Discovery and paradigm shift
	Mar 8	Metaphor in the science of language
9	Mar 11	Metaphor in literature	MTCR	HW4: Literature Due 3/18/02
	Mar 13	Poetry
	Mar 15	Proverbs
10	Mar 18	Moral politics	#7 (Lakoff 1995)
	Mar 20	Strict and nurturant parents
	Mar 22	Competing cognitive models		TERM PAPER PROPOSAL Due by 3/22/02
11	Mar 25	SPRING BREAK
12	Apr 1	Metaphor and war	#5 (Lakoff 1992); #8 (Lakoff 2001)	HW5: Politics Due 4/8/02
	Apr 3	The Gulf War
	Apr 5	September 11
13	Apr 8	Metaphor in mathematics	#9 (Lakoff & Nunez 1999)
	Apr 10	Arithmetic
	Apr 12	Complex numbers, infinity
14	Apr 15	Metaphor in philosophy	MWLB Ch. 18-30
	Apr 17	Objectivism, subjectivism, experientialism
	Apr 19	Philosophy of mind
15	Apr 22	Psycholinguistic evidence on metaphor	#3 (Gibbs et al. 1997)
	Apr 24	Metaphor processing
	Apr 26	Metaphor in idioms
16	Apr 29	Computational models of metaphor	#11 (Narayanan 1999)
	May 2	Dynamic and static metaphor models
	May 4	Simulation semantics
17	May 6	The neural basis for metaphor and summary		TERM PAPER Due 5/6/02
	May 8	Last class
18	May 15			FINAL EXAM Due 5/15/02