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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
One Hundred Ways to Resist Corporate Branding: Figurative Subversion in Visual and Multimodal Communication	24
Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory	23
Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic: Metaphorical Creativity in the #reframecovid Collection	19
Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids	18
God is Not Always Bright: Explicit and Implicit Associations between Brightness/Darkness and God in Bai People	17
Why Poetry?: Semiotic Scaffolding & the Poetic Architecture of Cognition	15
Source Domain Associations as Conceptual Assemblages in Trauma Talk – an Association Rule Mining Approach	13
‘The Genome Is the Brain of the Cell!’ How Japanese English Learners Mediate Understanding of Academic Content through Metaphor	12
Poet and Psychologist: A Conversation	12
Why is Semantic Change Asymmetric? The Role of Concreteness and Word Frequency and Metaphor and Metonymy	12
Metaphor in the Academic Mentoring of International Undergraduate Students: The Erasmus Experience	10
Correction	10
Revisiting Grammatical Metaphor in Translation: New Insights from the English–Chinese Pair	10
Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences	9
Assessing Attitudes Indirectly Through Conceptual Metaphors of Size and Distance in an Interactive Software	8
Color Metaphor Mappings for Love Concepts: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Speakers	8
For Better, for Worse, for Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness and in Health: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Merism	8
Literal and Metaphorical Cross-Domain Mappings: How They are Used and Responded to in Psychotherapy	8
Review of the Book:	7
Metaphorical Humor in Satirical News Shows: A Content Analysis	7
Water Metaphors and Evaluation of Syrian Migration: The Flow of Refugees in the Spanish Press	7
A Cognitive Investigation into the Love-life Relationship Expressed in Poetry	7
The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language	7
Is That a Genuine Smile? Emoji-Based Sarcasm Interpretation Across the Lifespan	7
Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS): The Case of Spatial and Abstract Relations	6

Loudness Metaphors in Chinese: Lexical and Corpus-Based Approaches	6
Multimodal Metaphoric Creativity, Framing, and Recontextualization in Education Discourse: University Advertisements in South Korea	5
Cognitive Factors Related to Metaphor Goodness in Poetic and Non-literary Metaphor	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
On Poetry and the Science(s) of Meaning	4
The Indexical Affordance of Metaphor: Stain as a Case Example	4
Metaphors We Love By: The Shift from Animal to Fruit Metaphors in Classical Arabic Ghazal	3
Flashbacks in Film: A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis	3
Becoming Buttercups: Fostering Eco-Empathy Through Metaphorical Creative Writing	2
Metaphor signalling constructions in discourse related to the experience of depersonalization/derealization	2
The Influence of Metaphorical Framing on Emotions and Reasoning About the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
The Norwegian Dugnad in Times of COVID-19	2
Individual Differences in Verbal Irony Use: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Psycholinguistic Studies	2
Large Language Model Displays Emergent Ability to Interpret Novel Literary Metaphors	2
Corpus-Based Metaphorical Framing Analysis: WAR Metaphors in Hong Kong Public Discourse	2
Constructing a Broad Model for Proverb Understanding	2
The Storm Sank My Boat and My Dreams: The Zeugma as a Breach of Iconicity	2
Embodied Metaphor Processing: A Study of the Priming Impact of Congruent and Opposite Gestural Representations of Metaphor Schema on Metaphor Comprehension	2