Yuān (冤) is a Chinese word literally meaning 'bent'which translates into English as
'injustice','wrong'and 'tort'. It realises various conceptual metaphors in Chinese, such as yuan …

This study presents multimodal metaphors as (re) framing tools in the analysis of a 10-
minute promotional video of Hubei Province produced by the Chinese government and …

Metaphor is a complex phenomenon in translation practice. Translators might omit or
generalise metaphors into the target language due to metaphor being a translation problem …

In the wake of global environmental change, China's focus on ecological civilization has
intensified. Political leaders' ecological thoughts are predominantly manifested through …

Law concerns every aspect of our lives. However, rarely do scholars investigate metaphors
of law, let alone those used in Mandarin, to which smaller attention is devoted in metaphor …

Cross-cultural variation in the metaphors that are employed by healthcare researchers and
professionals when discussing cancer care is a potential impediment to the sharing of …

This study takes a cognitive view of metaphor to investigate the terms designating
vulnerable people used in two legal languages, namely English as used in the European …

Metaphors are ubiquitous in human language, and there has been an increasing interest in
metaphor processing and interpretation from the field of computational and cognitive …

Since the cognitive turn in metaphor studies in the late 1970s, metaphor has been seen as a
cognitive phenomenon reflecting how we think, alongside its classic role as a powerful …

Government attention selectively distributed to various issues in policy-making processes is
usually reflected in language, such as metaphors in political discourse. In addition …