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
Why is Semantic Change Asymmetric? The Role of Concreteness and Word Frequency and Metaphor and Metonymy12
‘The Genome Is the Brain of the Cell!’ How Japanese English Learners Mediate Understanding of Academic Content through Metaphor12
Poet and Psychologist: A Conversation12
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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