Metaphor and Symbol

Papers
(The TQCC of Metaphor and Symbol is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Metaphor Compass: Directions for Metaphor Research in Language, Cognition, Communication, and Creativity28
One Hundred Ways to Resist Corporate Branding: Figurative Subversion in Visual and Multimodal Communication27
Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory23
Why Poetry?: Semiotic Scaffolding & the Poetic Architecture of Cognition22
Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids21
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 Metaphor17
Real-Time Processing of Various Conceptual Relations in Copular Sentences16
It’s (More Than) Personal: The Mediating Role of Comic Styles Between Personality and Irony/Sarcasm Use14
Correction13
Poet and Psychologist: A Conversation11
Revisiting Grammatical Metaphor in Translation: New Insights from the English–Chinese Pair10
Color Metaphor Mappings for Love Concepts: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Speakers8
Literal and Metaphorical Cross-Domain Mappings: How They are Used and Responded to in Psychotherapy8
Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences8
Two Context Effects on Metaphor Usage. A Computational, Corpus-Based Approach6
Assessing Attitudes Indirectly Through Conceptual Metaphors of Size and Distance in an Interactive Software6
Is That a Genuine Smile? Emoji-Based Sarcasm Interpretation Across the Lifespan6
Review of the Book:5
Loudness Metaphors in Chinese: Lexical and Corpus-Based Approaches5
The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language5
A Cognitive Investigation into the Love-life Relationship Expressed in Poetry5
It’s Time to Move: The Influence of Whole-Body Motion on Time Cognition in Mandarin Speakers5
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