Re: The US Government’s Metaphor Program

[Mark Kohut]

3. US Intelligence and metaphors. A research arm of the US government 
intelligence establishment wants to decode foreign languages through their 
metaphors. The reasearch agency is called the Intelligence Advanced Research 
Projects Activity (IARPA). It is inviting organizations to propose tools to 
analyze metaphors in foreign languages, as a way of gaining a deeper 
understanding of those languages and cultures. Laudable idea, though some might 
wonder what federal spies might then do with that information. That is assuming 
that the information will make any sense at all after it is put through the 
bureaucratic wringer offlow diagrams and metrics.

One of the classic works on Shakespeare is Shakespeare's Imagery by Caroline 
Sturgeon in which, before computer anlaysis, she did the most thorough job of 
finding the patterns and groupings of Shakespeare's images......

Fascinating stuff....



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From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tue, June 14, 2011 4:25:25 AM
Subject: The US Government’s Metaphor Program

http://www.theworld.org/2011/06/podcast-the-us-governments-metaphor-program-and-lingodroids/