Metaphor and Symbol

Papers
(The median citation count of Metaphor and Symbol is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
One Hundred Ways to Resist Corporate Branding: Figurative Subversion in Visual and Multimodal Communication31
Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory25
Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic: Metaphorical Creativity in the #reframecovid Collection22
Why Poetry?: Semiotic Scaffolding & the Poetic Architecture of Cognition19
‘The Genome Is the Brain of the Cell!’ How Japanese English Learners Mediate Understanding of Academic Content through Metaphor18
Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids18
Source Domain Associations as Conceptual Assemblages in Trauma Talk – an Association Rule Mining Approach18
Poet and Psychologist: A Conversation16
Why is Semantic Change Asymmetric? The Role of Concreteness and Word Frequency and Metaphor and Metonymy16
Revisiting Grammatical Metaphor in Translation: New Insights from the English–Chinese Pair13
Correction13
Metaphor in the Academic Mentoring of International Undergraduate Students: The Erasmus Experience12
Color Metaphor Mappings for Love Concepts: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Speakers12
Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences12
Literal and Metaphorical Cross-Domain Mappings: How They are Used and Responded to in Psychotherapy11
Assessing Attitudes Indirectly Through Conceptual Metaphors of Size and Distance in an Interactive Software10
It’s Time to Move: The Influence of Whole-Body Motion on Time Cognition in Mandarin Speakers8
Is That a Genuine Smile? Emoji-Based Sarcasm Interpretation Across the Lifespan8
Review of the Book:8
For Better, for Worse, for Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness and in Health: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Merism8
The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language8
Water Metaphors and Evaluation of Syrian Migration: The Flow of Refugees in the Spanish Press7
Loudness Metaphors in Chinese: Lexical and Corpus-Based Approaches7
Metaphorical Humor in Satirical News Shows: A Content Analysis6
A Cognitive Investigation into the Love-life Relationship Expressed in Poetry6
Multimodal Metaphoric Creativity, Framing, and Recontextualization in Education Discourse: University Advertisements in South Korea5
Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS): The Case of Spatial and Abstract Relations5
The Indexical Affordance of Metaphor: Stain as a Case Example4
Cognitive Factors Related to Metaphor Goodness in Poetic and Non-literary Metaphor4
Figurative Language and Sensory Perception: Corpus-Based Computer-Assisted Study of the Nature and Motivation of Synesthetic Metaphors in Olive Oil Tasting Notes4
On Poetry and the Science(s) of Meaning4
The Effect of Common Ground on Sarcasm Interpretation: Evidence from Intercultural Communications4
Large Language Model Displays Emergent Ability to Interpret Novel Literary Metaphors3
Metaphors We Love By: The Shift from Animal to Fruit Metaphors in Classical Arabic Ghazal3
Flashbacks in Film: A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis3
Individual Differences in Verbal Irony Use: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Psycholinguistic Studies2
The Storm Sank My Boat and My Dreams: The Zeugma as a Breach of Iconicity2
Individual Variation in Metaphor Interpretation2
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
Metaphor signalling constructions in discourse related to the experience of depersonalization/derealization2
The Norwegian Dugnad in Times of COVID-191
COVID-19 in English and Persian: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Illness Metaphors across Languages1
“Our Country Is a Freedom-Loving Country”: The Spreading Virus as Metaphor for “People on the Move”1
Becoming Buttercups: Fostering Eco-Empathy Through Metaphorical Creative Writing1
An Individual-Differences Approach to Poetic Metaphor: Impact of Aptness and Familiarity1
The Ambiguity of Metaphor: How Polysemy Affords Multivalent Metaphor Use and Explains the Paradox of Metaphor1
Metaphorical Mapping and Cultural Significance in Chinese Death-Related Idiomatic Expressions1
Embodied Metaphor Processing: A Study of the Priming Impact of Congruent and Opposite Gestural Representations of Metaphor Schema on Metaphor Comprehension1
Can Drawings Really Facilitate Children’s Symbolic Understanding of Metaphor: The Impact of Drawing Skills and Metaphor Explicitness1
Drawing as a Tool in Metaphor-Led Discourse Analysis1
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