Metaphor and the Social World
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The journal Metaphor and the Social World aims to provide a forum for researchers to share with each other, and with potential research users, work that explores aspects of metaphor and the social world. The term “social world” signals the importance given to context (of metaphor use), to connections (e.g. across social, cognitive and discourse dimensions of metaphor use), and to communication (between individuals or across social groups). The journal is not restricted to a single disciplinary or theoretical framework but welcomes papers based in a range of theoretical approaches to metaphor, including discourse and cognitive linguistic approaches, provided that the theory adequately supports the empirical work. Metaphor may be dealt with as either a matter of language or of thought, or of both; what matters is that consideration is given to the social and discourse contexts in which metaphor is found. Furthermore, “metaphor” is broadly interpreted and articles are welcomed on metonymy and other types of figurative language. A further aim is to encourage the development of high-quality research methodology using metaphor as an investigative tool, and for investigating the nature of metaphor use, for example multi-modal discourse analytic or corpus linguistic approaches to metaphor data. The journal publishes various types of articles, including reports of empirical studies, key articles accompanied by short responses, reviews and meta-analyses with commentaries. The Forum section publishes short responses to papers or current issues.
MSW publishes its articles Online First.
MSW invites submissions.
Please consult the Guidelines elsewhere on this page for instructions
or contact the editors: [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].
Please consult the Guidelines elsewhere on this page for instructions
or contact the editors: [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].
Latest articles
21 October 2024
Comparing metaphor elicitation models
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From online surveys to classroom intervention
Susan Nacey
&
Renata Turunen
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MSW 14:2 (2024) pp. 258–281
15 October 2024
The journey metaphor in Huawei mobile phone commercials
Zhangjingwen Jia
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MSW 14:2 (2024) pp. 233–257
23 September 2024
“Welcome to shege banza”
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Multimodal metaphors in Nigeria’s 2023 subsidy removal-related internet memes
Oluwayemisi Olusola Adebomi
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MSW 14:2 (2024) pp. 189–214
9 September 2024
“Biden’s Saigon”
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A metaphor analysis of “Sputnik’s” coverage of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan
Ivanka Pjesivac
,
Iveta Imre
,
Leslie Klein
&
Ana Petrov
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MSW 14:2 (2024) pp. 282–303
3 September 2024
Deliberate metaphor (use) in translation and interpreting
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Is there such a thing?
Sum Wong
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MSW 14:2 (2024) pp. 322–328
29 August 2024
R. Benczes
&
V. Szelid
(eds.). 2022. Visual Metaphors
Reviewed by
Dan Wang
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MSW 14:2 (2024) pp. 342–347
13 August 2024
A. Bagasheva
,
B. Hristov
&
N. Tincheva
(Eds). 2022. Figurativity and Human Ecology
Reviewed by
Qijun Song
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MSW 14:2 (2024) pp. 336–341
12 August 2024
N. Julich-Warpakowski
. 2022. Motion Metaphors in Music Criticism: An Empirical Investigation of Their Conceptual Motivation and Their
Metaphoricity
Reviewed by
Longxing Li
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MSW 14:2 (2024) pp. 329–335
5 August 2024
Educational technology, higher education discourses and the lived experience of lecturers as users
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Exploring the metaphors
Richard Bailey
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MSW 14:2 (2024) pp. 215–232
5 April 2024
Metaphors for multiculturalism in the Canadian context
Kayvan Shakoury
&
Frank Boers
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MSW 14:2 (2024) pp. 304–321
25 March 2024
A. Soares da Silva
(Ed.). 2021. Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage
Reviewed by
Nina Julich-Warpakowski
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MSW 14:1 (2024) pp. 172–179
22 March 2024
H. L. Colston
,
T. Matlock
&
G. Steen
(Ed.). 2022. Dynamism in metaphor and beyond
Reviewed by
Winnie Huiheng Zeng
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MSW 14:1 (2024) pp. 180–187
18 March 2024
D. Tay
. 2022. Navigating the realities of metaphor and psychotherapy research
Reviewed by
Deming Xiao
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MSW 14:1 (2024) pp. 163–171
9 January 2024
Are religion metaphors anti‑revolutionary?
Metaphors of climate scepticism in France
Anaïs Augé
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MSW 14:1 (2024) pp. 43–63
18 December 2023
Should offensive metaphors be censored?
Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.
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MSW 14:1 (2024) pp. 154–162
28 November 2023
The raw and the (over)cooked
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states are physical qualities
Travis Ashby
,
Omar Lizardo
,
Dustin S. Stoltz
&
Michael Lee Wood
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MSW 14:1 (2024) pp. 22–42
Instagram is a ridiculous lie factory
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Creative and evaluative metaphors of social media in a sample of newspaper opinion discourse
Jennifer Foley
&
Laura Hidalgo-Downing
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MSW 14:1 (2024) p. 85
10 October 2023
M. S. Peña-Cervel
&
F. J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
. 2022. Figuring out Figuration: A Cognitive Linguistic Account
Reviewed by
Špela Antloga
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MSW 13:2 (2023) pp. 316–322
I. Šeškauskienė
(ed.). 2022. Metaphor in Legal Discourse
Reviewed by
Francesca L. Seracini
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MSW 13:2 (2023) pp. 331–338
5 October 2023
C. Rasse
. 2022. Poetic Metaphors: Creativity and Interpretation
Reviewed by
Alena Revutskaya
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MSW 13:2 (2023) pp. 323–330
18 September 2023
Military metaphors in the discourses of the pandemic in two post-Yugoslav states
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Literal associations and historization of crisis
Ksenija Bogetić
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MSW 14:1 (2024) pp. 64–84
8 September 2023
The diachronic and cross-linguistic use of trade metaphors in U.S.-China governmental discourse
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A socio-cognitive approach
Xiaojuan Tan
,
Alan Cienki
&
Bertie Kaal
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MSW 14:1 (2024) pp. 130–153
4 August 2023
A qualitative study of endometriosis-related pain
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Metaphorical expressions beyond physical damage
Giorgia Andreolli
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MSW 14:1 (2024) pp. 1–21
Choosing the dark path
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Preferences for darkness and interpersonal antagonism
Michael D. Robinson
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Roberta L. Irvin
&
Micheal R. Waters
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MSW 14:1 (2024) pp. 109–129
Metaphors as tools for understanding in science communication among experts and to the public
Marthe Smedinga
,
Alan Cienki
&
Henk W. de Regt
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MSW 13:2 (2023) pp. 248–268
7 July 2023
Measurement matters
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An afterword on current challenges in metaphor research
Herbert Colston
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MSW 13:1 (2023) pp. 104–119
The semantics of a parallel reality
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What does religion do to metaphor in an Ancient Egyptian context?
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson
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MSW 13:1 (2023) p. 81
Zooming in on the notion of metaphoricity
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Notions, dimensions, and operationalizations
Nina Julich-Warpakowski
&
Thomas Wiben Jensen
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MSW 13:1 (2023) pp. 16–36
Literal or metaphorical? Conventional or creative?
Contested metaphoricity in intense emotional experiences
Sarah Turner
&
Jeannette Littlemore
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MSW 13:1 (2023) pp. 37–58
Semantic distance predicts metaphoricity and creativity judgments in synesthetic metaphors
Bodo Winter
&
Francesca Strik-Lievers
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MSW 13:1 (2023) pp. 59–80
D. Dobrovol’skij
&
E. Piirainen
. 2022. Figurative Language. Cross-Cultural and Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
Reviewed by
Rosa Illán Castillo
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MSW 13:1 (2023) pp. 132–137
P. Pérez-Sobrino
,
J. Littlemore
&
S. Ford
. 2021. Unpacking Creativity: The Power of Figurative Communication in Advertising
Reviewed by
Montserrat Esbrí Blasco
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MSW 13:1 (2023) pp. 120–127
M. Bagli
. 2021. Tastes We Live By: The Linguistic Conceptualisation of Taste in English
Reviewed by
Carina Rasse
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MSW 13:1 (2023) pp. 128–131
M. Brdar
&
R. Brdar-Szabó
(Eds.). 2022. Figurative Thought and Language in Action
Reviewed by
Kun Yang
&
Lincai Kuang
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MSW 13:1 (2023) pp. 138–143
Introduction
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Current challenges in metaphor research
Nina Julich-Warpakowski
&
Paula Pérez Sobrino
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MSW 13:1 (2023) pp. 1–15
15 June 2023
Interacting comparatively
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A study of metaphors and proverbs among the Qatari, Palestinian and Tunisian dialects
Thajbah Al-Sheroqi
,
Fatima Al-Thani
,
Mariam Alzini
,
Ilhem Souayah
&
Irene Theodoropoulou
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MSW 13:2 (2023) pp. 145–177
30 May 2023
Scepticism voiced through extended metaphors
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Assessment of higher education reform in the media
Jurga Cibulskienė
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MSW 13:2 (2023) pp. 197–220
26 May 2023
Landwhales, femoids and sub-humans
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Dehumanising metaphors in incel discourse
Ksenija Bogetić
,
Frazer Heritage
,
Veronika Koller
&
Mark McGlashan
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MSW 13:2 (2023) pp. 178–196
Issues
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Volume 12 (2022)
Volume 11 (2021)
Volume 10 (2020)
Volume 9 (2019)
Volume 8 (2018)
Volume 7 (2017)
Volume 6 (2016)
Volume 5 (2015)
Volume 4 (2014)
Volume 3 (2013)
Volume 2 (2012)
Volume 1 (2011)
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General