37.22, FYI: Editorial Change JB Journal MSW

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Subject: 37.22, FYI: Editorial Change JB Journal MSW

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Date: 05-Jan-2026
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Editorial Change JB Journal MSW


Starting with volume 16 (2026), Sarah Turner (Coventry University)
will succeed Aletta G. Dorst (Leiden University) and join Susan Nacey
(University of Inland Norway) and Dennis Tay (Nanyang Technological
University) as editor of the John Benjamins journal Metaphor and the
Social World. Aletta G. Dorst  will remain member of the board.
The journal Metaphor and the Social World aims to provide a forum for
researchers to share with each other, and with potential research
users, work that explores aspects of metaphor and the social world.
The term “social world” signals the importance given to context (of
metaphor use), to connections (e.g. across social, cognitive and
discourse dimensions of metaphor use), and to communication (between
individuals or across social groups). The journal is not restricted to
a single disciplinary or theoretical framework but welcomes papers
based in a range of theoretical approaches to metaphor, including
discourse and cognitive linguistic approaches, provided that the
theory adequately supports the empirical work. Metaphor may be dealt
with as either a matter of language or of thought, or of both; what
matters is that consideration is given to the social and discourse
contexts in which metaphor is found. Furthermore, “metaphor” is
broadly interpreted and articles are welcomed on metonymy and other
types of figurative language. A further aim is to encourage the
development of high-quality research methodology using metaphor as an
investigative tool, and for investigating the nature of metaphor use,
for example multi-modal discourse analytic or corpus linguistic
approaches to metaphor data. The journal publishes various types of
articles, including reports of empirical studies, key articles
accompanied by short responses, reviews and meta-analyses with
commentaries. The Forum section publishes short responses to papers or
current issues.
MSW publishes its articles Online First.
ISSN: 2210-4070
E-ISSN: 2210-4097

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Discourse Analysis




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