Metaphor and Symbol

Papers
(The TQCC of Metaphor and Symbol is 7. 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.)
ArticleCitations
One Hundred Ways to Resist Corporate Branding: Figurative Subversion in Visual and Multimodal Communication24
Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory23
Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic: Metaphorical Creativity in the #reframecovid Collection19
Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids18
God is Not Always Bright: Explicit and Implicit Associations between Brightness/Darkness and God in Bai People17
Why Poetry?: Semiotic Scaffolding & the Poetic Architecture of Cognition15
Source Domain Associations as Conceptual Assemblages in Trauma Talk – an Association Rule Mining Approach13
‘The Genome Is the Brain of the Cell!’ How Japanese English Learners Mediate Understanding of Academic Content through Metaphor12
Poet and Psychologist: A Conversation12
Why is Semantic Change Asymmetric? The Role of Concreteness and Word Frequency and Metaphor and Metonymy12
Metaphor in the Academic Mentoring of International Undergraduate Students: The Erasmus Experience10
Correction10
Revisiting Grammatical Metaphor in Translation: New Insights from the English–Chinese Pair10
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
Literal and Metaphorical Cross-Domain Mappings: How They are Used and Responded to in Psychotherapy8
Review of the Book:7
Metaphorical Humor in Satirical News Shows: A Content Analysis7
Water Metaphors and Evaluation of Syrian Migration: The Flow of Refugees in the Spanish Press7
A Cognitive Investigation into the Love-life Relationship Expressed in Poetry7
The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language7
Is That a Genuine Smile? Emoji-Based Sarcasm Interpretation Across the Lifespan7
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