Metaphor and Symbol

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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
God is Not Always Bright: Explicit and Implicit Associations between Brightness/Darkness and God in Bai People18
Why Poetry?: Semiotic Scaffolding & the Poetic Architecture of Cognition17
Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids16
Source Domain Associations as Conceptual Assemblages in Trauma Talk – an Association Rule Mining Approach14
‘The Genome Is the Brain of the Cell!’ How Japanese English Learners Mediate Understanding of Academic Content through Metaphor13
Why is Semantic Change Asymmetric? The Role of Concreteness and Word Frequency and Metaphor and Metonymy13
Poet and Psychologist: A Conversation12
Correction11
Revisiting Grammatical Metaphor in Translation: New Insights from the English–Chinese Pair10
Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences10
Metaphor in the Academic Mentoring of International Undergraduate Students: The Erasmus Experience10
Literal and Metaphorical Cross-Domain Mappings: How They are Used and Responded to in Psychotherapy9
Assessing Attitudes Indirectly Through Conceptual Metaphors of Size and Distance in an Interactive Software9
Color Metaphor Mappings for Love Concepts: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Speakers9
The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language8
Is That a Genuine Smile? Emoji-Based Sarcasm Interpretation Across the Lifespan8
For Better, for Worse, for Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness and in Health: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Merism8
Loudness Metaphors in Chinese: Lexical and Corpus-Based Approaches7
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
Review of the Book:7
Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS): The Case of Spatial and Abstract Relations6
Metaphorical Humor in Satirical News Shows: A Content Analysis6
Multimodal Metaphoric Creativity, Framing, and Recontextualization in Education Discourse: University Advertisements in South Korea5
On Poetry and the Science(s) of Meaning5
Cognitive Factors Related to Metaphor Goodness in Poetic and Non-literary Metaphor4
The Indexical Affordance of Metaphor: Stain as a Case Example4
Large Language Model Displays Emergent Ability to Interpret Novel Literary Metaphors4
Figurative Language and Sensory Perception: Corpus-Based Computer-Assisted Study of the Nature and Motivation of Synesthetic Metaphors in Olive Oil Tasting Notes4
Metaphors We Love By: The Shift from Animal to Fruit Metaphors in Classical Arabic Ghazal3
The Influence of Metaphorical Framing on Emotions and Reasoning About the COVID-19 Pandemic3
Flashbacks in Film: A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis3
Individual Differences in Verbal Irony Use: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Psycholinguistic Studies2
Corpus-Based Metaphorical Framing Analysis: WAR Metaphors in Hong Kong Public Discourse2
Becoming Buttercups: Fostering Eco-Empathy Through Metaphorical Creative Writing2
Metaphor signalling constructions in discourse related to the experience of depersonalization/derealization2
Constructing a Broad Model for Proverb Understanding2
The Norwegian Dugnad in Times of COVID-192
The Storm Sank My Boat and My Dreams: The Zeugma as a Breach of Iconicity2
Embodied Metaphor Processing: A Study of the Priming Impact of Congruent and Opposite Gestural Representations of Metaphor Schema on Metaphor Comprehension2
An Individual-Differences Approach to Poetic Metaphor: Impact of Aptness and Familiarity2
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