In recent years, conceptual metaphor and metonymy research has embraced an inter-disciplinary perspective and yielded fruitful scientific results. Topics of general interest in the field of cognitive linguistics include variation in metaphor/metonymy, metaphor/metonymy detection, metaphor/metonymy processing, and multimodal metaphor/metonymy. Methodologically, metaphor and metonymy research benefits greatly from techniques in corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience.