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Metaphor and the Social World

Online-first articles

The following articles have been published online-first, and have not yet been published in an issue.

27 March 2026

Review of Alejo-González (2024): Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics: Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus

Wanting Zhou | 7 pp.

24 March 2026

Review of Beger & Smith (2020): How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science

Niamh Anna O'Dowd | 7 pp.

2 March 2026

Metaphors of depression in Malay discourse: A cultural and affective analysis of clinical narratives

Salihah binti Ab Patah, Norliza Jamaluddin and Ng Chong Guan | 26 pp.

29 January 2026

Like a coin spinning in the air: The effect of (non-)metaphorical explanations on comprehension and attitudes towards quantum technology

Aletta Lucia Meinsma, W. Gudrun Reijnierse and Julia Cramer | 26 pp.

Agency in metaphor and translation: A socio-cognitive approach to deliberate metaphor use in intercultural communication

Sum Wong | 23 pp.

16 December 2025

Valence distribution and valence alignment in the metaphor być na świeczniku in the Polish language

Tomasz Dyrmo | 24 pp.

25 November 2025

A corpus-assisted critical metaphor analysis of movement metaphors in university presidents’ responses to anti-black violence

Victor Adedayo | 23 pp.

‘Climate cults’ and ‘climate sins’: Religion metaphors and the framing of climate change in American and Canadian newspapers

Kimberly Grogan and Elise Stickles | 29 pp.

Ecology, responsibility, and moral accounting: Metaphorical footprints and traces in Polish online press

Maciej Rosiński | 24 pp.

19 September 2025

E conomy is living organism: Deliberate metaphors in Chinese economic editorials in the context of COVID-19

Yuting Xu and Zaijiang Wei | 22 pp.

14 July 2025

Press, police, and protest: The framing effect of elemental metaphors in social unrest

Alexander W. Chen | 23 pp.

2 June 2025

Metaphors in Stand Up 2 Cancer animations

Charles Forceville | 26 pp.

19 May 2025

Peace talks as a card game: What can metaphor researchers do?

Gerard J. Steen | 7 pp.

27 March 2025

Review of Farkas & Maloney (2025): Digital Media Metaphors: A Critical Introduction

Gaoqiang Lu | 6 pp.