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
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
‘The Genome Is the Brain of the Cell!’ How Japanese English Learners Mediate Understanding of Academic Content through Metaphor18
Why is Semantic Change Asymmetric? The Role of Concreteness and Word Frequency and Metaphor and Metonymy16
Poet and Psychologist: A Conversation16
Revisiting Grammatical Metaphor in Translation: New Insights from the English–Chinese Pair13
Correction13
Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences12
Metaphor in the Academic Mentoring of International Undergraduate Students: The Erasmus Experience12
Color Metaphor Mappings for Love Concepts: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Speakers12
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
The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language8
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
Loudness Metaphors in Chinese: Lexical and Corpus-Based Approaches7
Water Metaphors and Evaluation of Syrian Migration: The Flow of Refugees in the Spanish Press7
Metaphorical Humor in Satirical News Shows: A Content Analysis6
A Cognitive Investigation into the Love-life Relationship Expressed in Poetry6
Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS): The Case of Spatial and Abstract Relations5
Multimodal Metaphoric Creativity, Framing, and Recontextualization in Education Discourse: University Advertisements in South Korea5
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
The Indexical Affordance of Metaphor: Stain as a Case Example4
Cognitive Factors Related to Metaphor Goodness in Poetic and Non-literary Metaphor4
Metaphors We Love By: The Shift from Animal to Fruit Metaphors in Classical Arabic Ghazal3
Flashbacks in Film: A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis3
Large Language Model Displays Emergent Ability to Interpret Novel Literary Metaphors3
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
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
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
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
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