The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science
and the humanities. We marvel at the creative dexterity of gifted speakers and writers for …

Purpose/significance Humans understand, think, and express themselves through
metaphors. The current paper emphasizes the importance of identifying the metaphorical …

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 …

There is renewed interest in the special role that metaphor can have in its communicative
status as metaphor between language users. This paper investigates the occurrence of such …

Colour words abound with figurative meanings, expressing much more than visual signals.
Some of these figurative properties are well known; in English, for example, black is …

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 …

Counting metaphors has become quite fashionable in metaphor research. There are
numerous attempts to reliably identify metaphors in discourse and count their frequencies …

The use of a dictionary in metaphor identification may lead to conflicts between sense
descriptions in the dictionary and analysts'(native speaker) intuitions about word meanings …

Abstract Taking Deliberate Metaphor Theory (Steen, 2015) as a starting point, this chapter
investigates the way in which co-text influences the identification and analysis of potentially …

This article-cum-narrative reflects on the use—indeed usefulness—of a dictionary in helping
the researcher to identify metaphorical and non-metaphorical uses of language. Focusing …