The immense increase in metaphor theory and research over the past decades is posing a
threat of fragmentation to the field, which has been responded to by calls for new and more …

In this paper we discuss the influence of war as a metaphor in the context of the COVID-19
pandemic. After an introduction on the traditional analysis of the war metaphor, we address …

This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse,
unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific metaphors to influence perceptions …

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 …

This article investigates the different roles attributed to humanity in the climate change
debate, through the depiction of the greenhouse effect. Our hypothesis is that the stance …

This paper offers a review of the argumentation-theoretical literature on metaphor in
argumentative discourse. Two methodologies are combined: the pragma-dialectical theory …

Metaphors occur frequently in literary texts. Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT; eg,)
proposes that metaphors that serve a communicative function as metaphor are radically …

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

This paper explores the suggestion (Steen, 2023a, 2023b) that most metaphor may be
structurally ambiguous between deliberate and non-deliberate meanings, which in turn …

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 …