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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Metaphor Production by Patients with Schizophrenia – A Case Analysis24
Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory22
Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic: Metaphorical Creativity in the #reframecovid Collection19
Scientists, Poets and Iconic Realities: A Cognitive Theory of Aesthetics16
God is Not Always Bright: Explicit and Implicit Associations between Brightness/Darkness and God in Bai People14
Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids14
Why Poetry?: Semiotic Scaffolding & the Poetic Architecture of Cognition13
Source Domain Associations as Conceptual Assemblages in Trauma Talk – an Association Rule Mining Approach11
Why is Semantic Change Asymmetric? The Role of Concreteness and Word Frequency and Metaphor and Metonymy10
‘The Genome Is the Brain of the Cell!’ How Japanese English Learners Mediate Understanding of Academic Content through Metaphor10
Poet and Psychologist: A Conversation9
Metaphor in the Academic Mentoring of International Undergraduate Students: The Erasmus Experience9
Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences9
Assessing Attitudes Indirectly Through Conceptual Metaphors of Size and Distance in an Interactive Software8
Color Metaphor Mappings for Love Concepts: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Speakers8
For Better, for Worse, for Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness and in Health: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Merism8
Is That a Genuine Smile? Emoji-Based Sarcasm Interpretation Across the Lifespan7
Review of the Book:6
Water Metaphors and Evaluation of Syrian Migration: The Flow of Refugees in the Spanish Press6
The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language6
A Cognitive Investigation into the Love-life Relationship Expressed in Poetry5
Multimodal Metaphoric Creativity, Framing, and Recontextualization in Education Discourse: University Advertisements in South Korea4
Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS): The Case of Spatial and Abstract Relations4
Metaphorical Humor in Satirical News Shows: A Content Analysis4
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
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
The Indexical Affordance of Metaphor: Stain as a Case Example3
Corpus-Based Metaphorical Framing Analysis: WAR Metaphors in Hong Kong Public Discourse2
Metaphor signalling constructions in discourse related to the experience of depersonalization/derealization2
Embodied Metaphor Processing: A Study of the Priming Impact of Congruent and Opposite Gestural Representations of Metaphor Schema on Metaphor Comprehension2
The Storm Sank My Boat and My Dreams: The Zeugma as a Breach of Iconicity2
The Influence of Metaphorical Framing on Emotions and Reasoning About the COVID-19 Pandemic2
Constructing a Broad Model for Proverb Understanding2
The Norwegian Dugnad in Times of COVID-192
The Embodiment of Power as Forward/Backward Movement in Chinese and English Speakers2
Individual Differences in Verbal Irony Use: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Psycholinguistic Studies2
An Individual-Differences Approach to Poetic Metaphor: Impact of Aptness and Familiarity2
“Our Country Is a Freedom-Loving Country”: The Spreading Virus as Metaphor for “People on the Move”1
‘Just Like Pandemic Prevention’: The Semiotic Flow That Interweaves Multimodality, Metaphor, and Narrativity1
COVID-19 in English and Persian: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Illness Metaphors across Languages1
The Ambiguity of Metaphor: How Polysemy Affords Multivalent Metaphor Use and Explains the Paradox of Metaphor1
Framing the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic: Metaphors, Images and Symbols1
Metaphorical Mapping and Cultural Significance in Chinese Death-Related Idiomatic Expressions1
Becoming Buttercups: Fostering Eco-Empathy Through Metaphorical Creative Writing1
Drawing as a Tool in Metaphor-Led Discourse Analysis1
Got a Spark with Brook? Engaging Consumers in a Sexual Health Campaign through the Use of Creative (Metaphorical) Double Entendres1
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