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Papers

(The median citation count of Review of Cognitive Linguistics is 0. 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.)

Article	Citations
Review of Schmid (2020): The dynamics of the linguistic system: Usage, conventionalization, and entrenchment	15
More than tough luck	8
Combining corpora and video-based descriptions	6
Review of Lin (2019): Encoding motion events in Mandarin Chinese. A cognitive functional study	5
A cognitive analysis on Spanish differential object marking based on a modified model of the Transitivity Hypothesis	5
Beyond corpus data — complementary and alternative methods in cognitive linguistics	4
The semantics of the polysemic Amharic wordfit‘face’	3
Testing the benefits of relating figurative idioms to their literal underpinnings	3
Zero-sum or Win-win Game?	3
Image schemas and (point)-to-point event model for the macro-event	2
Pedagogical potential of Cognitive Grammar descriptions for the pluperfect in Spanish	2
The size of shame and pride	2
Paradigms as second-order schemas in English noun-participle compounding	2
The experiential construction in Assamese	2
Challenges and potential of quasi-experimental studies in cognitive linguistics applied to language teaching and learning	2
Figurativeness of the Japanese flag	2
Ideological and explanatory uses of the COVID-19 as a war metaphor in science	2
Applying Cognitive Linguistics to elucidate the meanings of the particles IN/OUT and UP/DOWN in L2 classrooms	2
Review of Romano (2024): Metaphor in socio-political contexts. Current Crises	2
football club is family	2
What does water mean to us	2
The Spanish subjunctive and grounding	2
Onomatopoeia and metonymy	2
Categorization of body parts in Dholuo	2
Setting subject and the inferential cleft construction in Korean	2

The competition between noun-verb conversion and -ize derivation	2
Meaning extensions of internet memes	1
Vete a freír cristales	1
Living Metaphors and Metonymies	1
Metaphor clusters in political discourse	1
touch in language	1
Conceptualizing achromaticity	1
The semantic access mechanism of L3 Spanish words	1
A mental spaces analysis of religious identity discourse	1
Metonymy, reflexive hyperbole and broadly reflexive relationships	1
Conceptualisation of mental activities through the body part ləbb ‘heart’ in Amharic	1
What foreign language learners make of grammatical descriptions depends on description type, proficiency, and context	1
The physics of time	1
Ego-centered motion metaphors of time across methods	1
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Living metaphors and metonymies	1
Conceptual metaphor in trading card games	1
Evolution is an arc along a timeline	1
Review of Diessel (2019): The grammar network: How linguistic structure is shaped by language use	1
DOG and CAT proverbs	1
Is the FROM construction community-specific?	1
Metaphorical framing of political events through ENTERTAINMENT scenarios	1
Chinese adverbs	1
An inclusive case study of multimodal metaphor	1
Introduction	1
The role of metonymy in naming	1
Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching	1
Review of Ounis (2024): Unpacking metaphor-related prepositions in political discourse	1
Cross-cultural differences in mental representations of diagonal time lines	1
Contrasting the semantics of prepositions through a cognitive linguistic approach	1
Linguistic picture of woman in French and Serbian	1
Review of Lu, Kudrnáčová & Janda (2021): Corpus approaches to language, thought and communication	1
Review of Panther (2022): Introduction to cognitive pragmatics	0
The view of meaning from a “postclassical” perspective	0
Shortcomings and challenges in the intersection of L2 pedagogy and applied cognitive linguistics	0
What does it mean for cognitive linguistics to be a usage-based discipline?	0
The semantic mapping of the German spatial preposition JENSEITS	0
Bodily engagement in the learning and teaching of grammar	0
Raising the bar	0
Frame exploitation at its worst	0
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Bringing Figurative Language into Real L2 Classrooms	0
Fostering the learning of the Russian motion verbs system in Italian-speaking students	0
Separation events in Mandarin, Russian and Korean	0
Debunking myths from a cognitive perspective	0
Review of Sommerer & Smirnova (2020): Nodes and networks in diachronic Construction Grammar	0
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Between source language constructions and target language expectations	0
Modeling a network of the ba -constructions in Contemporary Mandarin	0
What does it mean to wear a mask?	0

Frames and semantic roles in metaphorical mappings	0
Perspectives on soundscapes	0
Review of Boas & Höder (2021): Constructions in contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition	0
GO (a)round and V vs. GO (a)round Ving	0
Reflections on the study of language	0
“Brides as unaffordable commodities”	0
Culture in a radically usage-based model of language change, with special reference to constructional attrition	0
Multimodal metaphors in Zuojiang Huashan rock art cultural landscape	0
A case for metonymic synesthesia	0
Review of Ladewig (2020): Integrating gestures: The dimension of multimodality in Cognitive Grammar	0
Review of Bagli (2021): Tastes we live by. The linguistic conceptualisation of taste in English	0
Review of Pérez-Hernández (2021): Speech acts in English: From research to instruction and textbook development	0
Hydro-political power of the Nile	0
Rosie the Riveter of the COVID time	0
All flesh is equal	0
From usage patterns to meaning construction	0
An onomasiological competition	0
Introduction	0
Aspects of Metaphor	0
Capturing meaningful generalizations at varying degrees of resolution	0
Antonym order in English and Chinese coordinate structures	0
Exploring diachronic salience of emotion metaphors	0
Cognitive motivations behind absent agents in passive sentences across Chinese and English	0
Motion-related image schemas in Serbian journalistic articles	0
Metaphor as a key tool in personal development discourse	0
Forty years of metonymy	0
Metonymy and the polysemy ofCovidin Italian	0
The polysemy of the Japanese temperature adjective atsui	0
The semantic change of faqare (‘vertebra’, ‘unit’) as a numeral classifier in Persian	0
L2 English learners’ verb lexicalization of motion events	0
Embodied constructions	0
Collostructional analysis on Chinese modal verb construction neng bu neng + VP	0
Intertextual satire in media discourse	0
Investigating metaphor comprehension strategies of young Second Language students of Greek	0
Conventional metaphors in English as a lingua franca	0
economy is human	0
Head metaphors and metonymies in two dialects of Arabic	0
Anti-Muslim semantic framing by politicians, Facebook groups, and violent extremists	0
Review of Peréz Sobrino & Littlemore Ford (2021): Unpacking creativity. The power of figurative communication in advertising	0
A multidimensional approach to echoing	0
Move in a crowd	0
Gradience in iconicity	0
Review of Peña-Cervel & Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (2022): Figuring out figuration: A cognitive linguistic account	0
Forces behind the scene	0
RA-marking, delimitation, and TA-headed directional PPs in Persian	0
From a war of defense to conventional wars	0
Possessive construction in the Kurdish language	0
The Factive, IHRC, and Cleft constructions in Korean	0
Attribute transfer	0
Banter reframed	0
A look at, inside, and outside metaphors	0
On the creative use of metonymy	0
Using the body to activate the brain	0
Applying cognitive grammar to the Count/Mass Distinction	0
The COVID-19 pandemic and changing meanings of flatten the curve	0
Evidential propositions as situational scenarios	0
Review of Hijazo-Gascón (2021): Moving across languages: Motion events in Spanish as a second language	0
Subjectification and conativity	0
The proper names ‘Assad’, ‘ISIL’, ‘ISIS’, ‘Daesh’ and ‘European’ as metonymic blends in political discourse	0
Top-down and bottom-up approaches to teaching English verb-particle constructions	0
Constrained communication of motion events	0
The heart of the matter: A matter of the heart	0
The Yin-centered philosophy in the Daodejing	0
Metonymichitting	0
Cuanto(s) más datos, (tanto) mejor	0
Metaphorical and non-metaphorical meaning from spatial relations	0
The convergence and divergence of extension and intension on semantic change	0
Review of Molina-Plaza & Maroto (2024): Aspects of cognitive terminology studies	0
Metaphorical experience	0