OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
One Hundred Ways to Resist Corporate Branding: Figurative Subversion in Visual and Multimodal Communication	27
Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory	25
Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic: Metaphorical Creativity in the #reframecovid Collection	22
God is Not Always Bright: Explicit and Implicit Associations between Brightness/Darkness and God in Bai People	18
Why Poetry?: Semiotic Scaffolding & the Poetic Architecture of Cognition	18
‘The Genome Is the Brain of the Cell!’ How Japanese English Learners Mediate Understanding of Academic Content through Metaphor	16
Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids	16
Source Domain Associations as Conceptual Assemblages in Trauma Talk – an Association Rule Mining Approach	16
Why is Semantic Change Asymmetric? The Role of Concreteness and Word Frequency and Metaphor and Metonymy	14
Poet and Psychologist: A Conversation	13
Metaphor in the Academic Mentoring of International Undergraduate Students: The Erasmus Experience	11
Color Metaphor Mappings for Love Concepts: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Speakers	11
Revisiting Grammatical Metaphor in Translation: New Insights from the English–Chinese Pair	11
Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences	11
Correction	11
Literal and Metaphorical Cross-Domain Mappings: How They are Used and Responded to in Psychotherapy	10
Assessing Attitudes Indirectly Through Conceptual Metaphors of Size and Distance in an Interactive Software	10
For Better, for Worse, for Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness and in Health: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Merism	9
Is That a Genuine Smile? Emoji-Based Sarcasm Interpretation Across the Lifespan	8
Water Metaphors and Evaluation of Syrian Migration: The Flow of Refugees in the Spanish Press	8
Review of the Book:	8
The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language	8
Metaphorical Humor in Satirical News Shows: A Content Analysis	7
A Cognitive Investigation into the Love-life Relationship Expressed in Poetry	7
Loudness Metaphors in Chinese: Lexical and Corpus-Based Approaches	7

Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS): The Case of Spatial and Abstract Relations	6
Multimodal Metaphoric Creativity, Framing, and Recontextualization in Education Discourse: University Advertisements in South Korea	6
On Poetry and the Science(s) of Meaning	5
Cognitive Factors Related to Metaphor Goodness in Poetic and Non-literary Metaphor	4
Metaphors We Love By: The Shift from Animal to Fruit Metaphors in Classical Arabic Ghazal	4
Figurative Language and Sensory Perception: Corpus-Based Computer-Assisted Study of the Nature and Motivation of Synesthetic Metaphors in Olive Oil Tasting Notes	4
Flashbacks in Film: A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis	4
The Indexical Affordance of Metaphor: Stain as a Case Example	4
The Influence of Metaphorical Framing on Emotions and Reasoning About the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Metaphor signalling constructions in discourse related to the experience of depersonalization/derealization	3
Corpus-Based Metaphorical Framing Analysis: WAR Metaphors in Hong Kong Public Discourse	3
Large Language Model Displays Emergent Ability to Interpret Novel Literary Metaphors	3
The Norwegian Dugnad in Times of COVID-19	2
Constructing a Broad Model for Proverb Understanding	2
Embodied Metaphor Processing: A Study of the Priming Impact of Congruent and Opposite Gestural Representations of Metaphor Schema on Metaphor Comprehension	2
The Storm Sank My Boat and My Dreams: The Zeugma as a Breach of Iconicity	2
An Individual-Differences Approach to Poetic Metaphor: Impact of Aptness and Familiarity	2
Got a Spark with Brook? Engaging Consumers in a Sexual Health Campaign through the Use of Creative (Metaphorical) Double Entendres	2
Individual Differences in Verbal Irony Use: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Psycholinguistic Studies	2
Becoming Buttercups: Fostering Eco-Empathy Through Metaphorical Creative Writing	2