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

of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on metaphor and language. Featuring 35
chapters, written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume takes a broad view …

From the earliest writing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT; see Chapter 1, this volume)
to the present, linguistic metaphors have been the main type of evidence provided in support …

In the summer of 2000, an international group of ten metaphor scholars came together in
Amsterdam for a three-day expert meeting sponsored by the Netherlands Organization for …

Abstract The Academic Vocabulary List (AVL)(Gardner & Davies, 2014) is a valuable
resource for EAP teachers and students as it identifies potential lexical learning/teaching …

The paper aims to explore the role of gender metaphors in constructing a language picture
of the world on the basis of figurative appellations of human beings. The linguistic corpus …

El análisis y la identificación de lenguaje figurativo es una de las áreas de investigación
más amplias en el ámbito de la lingüística cognitiva, y la metáfora es parte de este lenguaje …

Do I really have to do this for each and every word? But that will take forever! Whether they
be BA, MA or PhD students, postdocs or fellow researchers–anyone who is taught the basics …

Direct metaphor has been widely studied from the cognitive perspective, but its functions in
the communicative dimension remain less well understood. This study investigates direct …

This chapter deals with the application of MIPVU to French, a Romance language. Recently,
MIP (VU) has been used by metaphor scholars in France and Belgium to identify linguistic …