Metaphor and Symbol

Papers
(The median citation count of Metaphor and Symbol is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
One Hundred Ways to Resist Corporate Branding: Figurative Subversion in Visual and Multimodal Communication26
The Metaphor Compass: Directions for Metaphor Research in Language, Cognition, Communication, and Creativity25
Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory24
Why Poetry?: Semiotic Scaffolding & the Poetic Architecture of Cognition20
‘The Genome Is the Brain of the Cell!’ How Japanese English Learners Mediate Understanding of Academic Content through Metaphor17
Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids17
Source Domain Associations as Conceptual Assemblages in Trauma Talk – an Association Rule Mining Approach17
Poet and Psychologist: A Conversation16
Real-Time Processing of Various Conceptual Relations in Copular Sentences16
Correction14
Revisiting Grammatical Metaphor in Translation: New Insights from the English–Chinese Pair11
Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences10
Literal and Metaphorical Cross-Domain Mappings: How They are Used and Responded to in Psychotherapy8
Assessing Attitudes Indirectly Through Conceptual Metaphors of Size and Distance in an Interactive Software7
Color Metaphor Mappings for Love Concepts: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Speakers7
For Better, for Worse, for Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness and in Health: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Merism7
The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language6
Is That a Genuine Smile? Emoji-Based Sarcasm Interpretation Across the Lifespan6
Review of the Book:5
It’s Time to Move: The Influence of Whole-Body Motion on Time Cognition in Mandarin Speakers5
A Cognitive Investigation into the Love-life Relationship Expressed in Poetry4
Metaphorical Humor in Satirical News Shows: A Content Analysis4
Loudness Metaphors in Chinese: Lexical and Corpus-Based Approaches4
Conceptualizing the Aggressor as an Animal: Metaphors, Memes, and the Russo-Ukrainian War4
Water Metaphors and Evaluation of Syrian Migration: The Flow of Refugees in the Spanish Press4
The Path to Women’s Candidate Emergence is Paved with Metaphorical Resistance: Limits of a Journey Metaphor in Provoking Identity-Based Motivation3
Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS): The Case of Spatial and Abstract Relations3
On Poetry and the Science(s) of Meaning3
Multimodal Metaphoric Creativity, Framing, and Recontextualization in Education Discourse: University Advertisements in South Korea3
Cognitive Factors Related to Metaphor Goodness in Poetic and Non-literary Metaphor2
The Indexical Affordance of Metaphor: Stain as a Case Example2
Large Language Model Displays Emergent Ability to Interpret Novel Literary Metaphors2
Flashbacks in Film: A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis2
Concreteness in Metaphor: An Interactionist Perspective2
Does Extroversion Mean Being Outside? The Connection Between Introverted and Extroverted Personality Concepts and Container Metaphors2
Metaphors We Love By: The Shift from Animal to Fruit Metaphors in Classical Arabic Ghazal2
Individual Variation in Metaphor Interpretation2
Metaphor signalling constructions in discourse related to the experience of depersonalization/derealization2
The Effect of Common Ground on Sarcasm Interpretation: Evidence from Intercultural Communications2
Figurative Language and Sensory Perception: Corpus-Based Computer-Assisted Study of the Nature and Motivation of Synesthetic Metaphors in Olive Oil Tasting Notes2
The Influence of Metaphorical Framing on Emotions and Reasoning About the COVID-19 Pandemic2
Corpus-Based Metaphorical Framing Analysis: WAR Metaphors in Hong Kong Public Discourse2
The Storm Sank My Boat and My Dreams: The Zeugma as a Breach of Iconicity2
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