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Review of Cognitive Linguistics

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

5 March 2026

Dynamic categorization of the Chinese verb ? jie: A diachronic cognitive semantic study
Rong Zeng and Shuyan Fang | 29 pp.

26 January 2026

Cognitive mechanisms in Chinese and English diagonal direction compounds encoding order: The competition between cognitive style and stability-identifiability interplay
Chen Zhong and Fan Like | 23 pp.

20 January 2026

Theoretical and methodological issues in the identification of metaphorical language
Attila Cserep | 46 pp.
Between the subject and the self: Force dynamics and the divided-person metaphor in acceptance and commitment therapy
Charles M. Mueller and Antonio-José Silvestre-López | 31 pp.
Filler-slot relations in language contact: Lexico-syntactic transference from a usage-based perspective
Jesus Olguin Martinez and Stefan Th. Gries | 27 pp.
Conceptual overlap and multiple symbolization in signed languages
Sherman Wilcox, André Xavier and Rocío Martínez | 39 pp.

11 December 2025

The influence of motion features in time conceptualization
Rosa Illán Castillo and Javier Valenzuela | 34 pp.
Multisensory and synaesthetic features in Russian onomatopoeias
Oksana Kanerva and Johanna Viimaranta | 30 pp.

13 November 2025

Disambiguating polysemy: How hand gestures help observers interpret the verb touch
Irene Bolumar Martínez, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Daniel Alcaraz Carrión and Javier Valenzuela | 25 pp.

4 November 2025

Subject of consciousness and subjectivity: A cognitive semantic approach to the Korean “reconstructive” causal connective -( u ) n nameci
Iksoo Kwon and Ji-in Kang | 31 pp.

31 October 2025

Modeling a network of the ba -constructions in Contemporary Mandarin: A Construction Grammar approach
Meili Liu | 25 pp.

28 October 2025

The experiential construction in Assamese: Form and meaning
Gautam K. Borah and Bisalakshi Sawarni | 39 pp.
What does water mean to us: water metaphors and metonymies in Chinese and English idioms
Chuanhong Chen and Xu Wen | 32 pp.
Forces behind the scene: The subjunctive in non-subordinate clauses without overt triggers in Spanish
Francisco Javier García Yanes | 27 pp.
Conceptualisation of mental activities through the body part ləbb ‘heart’ in Amharic
Sérgio N. Menete, Guiying Jiang and Xu Qinliang | 32 pp.
“Brides as unaffordable commodities” A feminist critical discourse analysis of metaphor scenarios in high-bride-price cartoons in China
Yaru Zhao and Jiayu Wang | 27 pp.

22 September 2025

Perspectives on soundscapes: Verb constructions in descriptions of everyday sounds
Eleni Tzimopoulou, Jenny Hartman, Joost van de Weijer and Carita Paradis | 26 pp.

15 September 2025

Head metaphors and metonymies in two dialects of Arabic: A cognitive linguistic approach
Mohammed I. Alghbban | 25 pp.

5 September 2025

The Yin -centered philosophy in the  Daodejing: Based on the conceptual metaphors of dao
Ying Zhang | 32 pp.

18 August 2025

Cognitive motivations behind absent agents in passive sentences across Chinese and English
Yonghui Xie, Ruochen Niu and Haitao Liu | 24 pp.

12 June 2025

What does it mean for cognitive linguistics to be a usage-based discipline?
Vladimir Glebkin | 25 pp.

2 June 2025

Debunking myths from a cognitive perspective: Mood choice in subordinate clauses to emotive predicates
Francisco Javier García Yanes | 40 pp.

16 May 2025

Banter reframed: Toward a new analytical framework for understanding conversational humor types
Salma Errami Fennane | 22 pp.

24 April 2025

Constrained communication of motion events: Exploring shared cognitive constraints in Chinese-French translation and description tasks
Lin Shen | 32 pp.

21 April 2025

All flesh is equal: The influence of religious upbringing on communicative politeness in Chinese Buddhists
Heng Li | 22 pp.

9 April 2025

GO (a)round and V vs. GO (a)round V ing: A multivariate distinctive collexeme analysis based on association rules
Kim Jensen and Stefan Th. Gries | 26 pp.

10 March 2025

Multimodal metaphors in Zuojiang Huashan rock art cultural landscape
Shan Zhang | 40 pp.

28 January 2025

The semantic change of faqare (‘vertebra’, ‘unit’) as a numeral classifier in Persian
Reza Soltani and Laura A. Janda | 28 pp.

13 January 2025

touch in language
Rosario Caballero and Carita Paradis | 24 pp.

16 December 2024

Investigating metaphor comprehension strategies of young Second Language students of Greek
Christos Christodoulakis and Paraskevi Thomou | 26 pp.

3 December 2024

Motion-related image schemas in Serbian journalistic articles: A corpus-based study
Vladan Pavlovic, Aleksandra Janic Mitic and Ivana Mitic | 29 pp.

15 November 2024

Embodied constructions: The encoding of emotions in Ancient Greek
Silvia Luraghi | 36 pp.

17 September 2024

Frame exploitation at its worst: The way Egyptian military doctors make sense of illness and cure
Ahmed Abdel-Raheem | 27 pp.
Figurativeness of the Japanese flag: A multilevel analysis of the Japan 2011 earthquake distress relief posters
Tomasz Dyrmo | 21 pp.
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