Metaphor and the Social World
Volume 16, Issue 2 (2026)
Expected November 2026. ca. 175 pp.
Publishing status: In production
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Table of Contents
- Pandemic metaphors in expert discourse: Norwegian public health officials’ use of metaphors during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–2022Anne Bredahl |
- Children’s ability to interpret metaphorical polysemy in educational materialsAlice Deignan, Duygu Candarli & Elena Semino |
- Like a coin spinning in the air: The effect of (non-)metaphorical explanations on comprehension and attitudes towards quantum technologyAletta Lucia Meinsma, W. Gudrun Reijnierse & Julia Cramer |
- Fire, wind, and lies: Mapping the metaphorical landscape of the January 2025 Southern California wildfiresBrigitte Nerlich & Rusi Jaspal |
- Metaphors of depression in Malay discourse: A cultural and affective analysis of clinical narrativesSalihah binti Ab Patah, Norliza Jamaluddin & Ng Chong Guan |
- Ecology, responsibility, and moral accounting: Metaphorical footprints and traces in Polish online pressMaciej Rosiński |
- Agency in metaphor and translation: A socio-cognitive approach to deliberate metaphor use in intercultural communicationSum Wong |
- A. Goatly. 2024. Metaphor, Metonymy and LexicogenesisReviewed by Hua Shao |
- A. Rogos-Hebda & H. Tissari (Eds.). 2026. At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive LinguisticsReviewed by Fatemeh Soleimani |
- S. E. Duffy & M. I. Feist. 2023. Time, Metaphor, and Language: A Cognitive Science PerspectiveReviewed by Bonnie Xinyue Ren |
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