This article provides an overview of metaphor theories and research on their own terms, as
well as their use in Hebrew Bible (HB) studies. Though metaphor studies in the HB have …

How do people talk—and potentially think—about abstract concepts? Supported by
abundant linguistic evidence, Conceptual Metaphor Theory posits that people draw upon …

Metaphor research has witnessed tremendous changes in how metaphor is seen and
understood. Traditionally, metaphor has been viewed as a special, creative, and noticeable …

Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think
about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the …

The need to provide novel but meaningful ways to reason and talk about an unprecedented
crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a surge of creative metaphoric …

essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of
perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing …

Figurative communication (the use of metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole and irony) provides
economy of expression, clarity, persuasiveness, politeness, evaluation, and communication …

Pandemics such as Covid-19 are often described in terms of “wars” or “waves” and
“troughs.” But this imagery has its potential shortcomings, and therefore a great many …

Metaphor acquisition research has focused mostly on metaphor comprehension in
monolingual children. Ours is the first study to examine metaphor production in young …

It has been suggested that metaphor often performs some sort of evaluative function.
However, there have been few empirical studies addressing this issue. Moreover, little is …