Cognitive theories of metaphor understanding are typically described in terms of the
mappings between different kinds of abstract, schematic, disembodied knowledge. My claim …

What role do people's embodied experiences have in their use and understanding of
metaphor? Contrary to the traditional belief that metaphor transcends human experience …

What does it mean for metaphors to be “embodied”? Here we describe an influential theory
of embodied cognition according to which thoughts are implemented in perceptuo-motor …

Metaphor is, at root, a problem of knowing. It can serve a crucial role in the development of
knowing, both for an individual and for a community. It is a powerful vehicle for recasting …

This essay compares simulation-based accounts of metaphor processing recently proposed
by and, using examples of metaphors based on the metaphor vehicle “journey” from four …

In Where Metaphors Come From, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a metaphorical grounding that
augments and refines conceptual metaphor theory according to which conceptual …

Although Vervaeke and Kennedy (this issue) made many useful and interesting points in this
and previous articles, much of their response was based on a serious misunderstanding of …

Much research in cognitive linguistics suggests that many abstract concepts, such as racism,
are understood, at least partly, in embodied metaphorical terms. For example …

The revolution in metaphor studies has revealed the motivating presence of underlying
conceptual metaphors in people's use and understanding of metaphorical language and …

A major revolution in the study of metaphor occurred 30 years ago with the introduction of
“conceptual metaphor theory”(CMT). Unlike previous theories of metaphor and metaphorical …