In response to two recent publications about Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT) in this
journal, I argue that DMT advances metaphor studies into a period with new and exciting …

This paper introduces the Deliberate Metaphor Identification Procedure (DMIP), a method for
the systematic and reliable identification of potentially deliberate metaphor in language use …

Expressions of resistance to violence metaphors for cancer provide important insights as to
how these metaphors are perceived and which specific aspects of their use are deemed …

One recent trend in metaphor studies is to deny the possibility that most verbal metaphors
really convey metaphoric meanings via cross-domain mappings. Instead, only a small …

Монография посвящена систематизации научного знания в области теории
метафоры. Метафора рассматривается с точки зрения семантического …

While the psychological reality of deliberate metaphors remains in ongoing doubt, this study
attests to their psychological reality in the Chinese language. Based upon the definition and …

Objective Online social support provides a way to positively influence depression sufferers.
In the present study, we aim to analyze how social support in Chinese online depression …

Conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) holds that most conceptual metaphors are processed
unconsciously. However, whether multiple words can be integrated into a holistic …

This article unfolds and argues for Biliteracy Metaphor Analysis (BMA), a methodology for
examining the interpretation and use of metaphors in canon literature in a biliteracy context …

Adopting “cognitive commitment”, we make the argument that an under-employed means of
testing tenets of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (cmt), and in bridging the gap between …