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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
One Hundred Ways to Resist Corporate Branding: Figurative Subversion in Visual and Multimodal Communication31
Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory25
Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic: Metaphorical Creativity in the #reframecovid Collection22
Why Poetry?: Semiotic Scaffolding & the Poetic Architecture of Cognition19
‘The Genome Is the Brain of the Cell!’ How Japanese English Learners Mediate Understanding of Academic Content through Metaphor18
Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids18
Source Domain Associations as Conceptual Assemblages in Trauma Talk – an Association Rule Mining Approach18
Poet and Psychologist: A Conversation16
Why is Semantic Change Asymmetric? The Role of Concreteness and Word Frequency and Metaphor and Metonymy16
Revisiting Grammatical Metaphor in Translation: New Insights from the English–Chinese Pair13
Correction13
Metaphor in the Academic Mentoring of International Undergraduate Students: The Erasmus Experience12
Color Metaphor Mappings for Love Concepts: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Speakers12
Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences12
Literal and Metaphorical Cross-Domain Mappings: How They are Used and Responded to in Psychotherapy11
Assessing Attitudes Indirectly Through Conceptual Metaphors of Size and Distance in an Interactive Software10
It’s Time to Move: The Influence of Whole-Body Motion on Time Cognition in Mandarin Speakers8
Is That a Genuine Smile? Emoji-Based Sarcasm Interpretation Across the Lifespan8
Review of the Book:8
For Better, for Worse, for Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness and in Health: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Merism8
The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language8
Water Metaphors and Evaluation of Syrian Migration: The Flow of Refugees in the Spanish Press7
Loudness Metaphors in Chinese: Lexical and Corpus-Based Approaches7
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