Metaphor and the Social World
Volume 16, Issue 1 (2026)
Expected June 2026. ca. 175 pp.
Publishing status: In production
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Table of Contents
- A corpus-assisted critical metaphor analysis of movement metaphors in university presidents’ responses to anti-black violenceVictor Adedayo | pp. 1–23
- Press, police, and protest: The framing effect of elemental metaphors in social unrestAlexander W. Chen | pp. 24–46
- Valence distribution and valence alignment in the metaphor być na świeczniku in the Polish languageTomasz Dyrmo | pp. 47–70
- Metaphors in Stand Up 2 Cancer animationsCharles Forceville | pp. 71–96
- ‘Climate cults’ and ‘climate sins’: Religion metaphors and the framing of climate change in American and Canadian newspapersKimberly Grogan & Elise Stickles | pp. 97–125
- Ecology, responsibility, and moral accounting: Metaphorical footprints and traces in Polish online pressMaciej Rosiński | pp. 126–149
- Economy is living organism : Deliberate metaphors in Chinese economic editorials in the context of COVID-19Yuting Xu & Zaijiang Wei | pp. 150–171
- Peace talks as a card game: What can metaphor researchers do?Gerard J. Steen | pp. 172–178
- J. Farkas & M. Maloney (Eds.). 2025. Digital Media Metaphors: A Critical IntroductionReviewed by Gaoqiang Lu | pp. 179–184
- A. Beger & T. H. Smith (Eds.). 2020. How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize ScienceReviewed by Niamh A. O’Dowd | pp. 185–191
- R. Alejo-González. 2024. Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics: Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction CorpusReviewed by Wanting Zhou | pp. 192–198
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