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Date: 28-Sep-2026
From: Eric Burgstede [eric at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Metaphor and the Social World Vol. 16, No. 2 (2026)


Publisher: John Benjamins
                        http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Metaphor and the Social World
Volume Number: 16
Issue Number: 2
Issue Date: 2026

Main Text:

2026.  iv, 190 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Pandemic metaphors in expert discourse: Norwegian public health
officials’ use of metaphors during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–2022
Anne Bredahl | pp. 175–198
Children’s ability to interpret metaphorical polysemy in educational
materials
Alice Deignan, Duygu Candarli & Elena Semino | pp. 199–222
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 & Julia Cramer |
pp. 223–248
Fire, wind, and lies: Mapping the metaphorical landscape of the
January 2025 Southern California wildfires
Brigitte Nerlich & Rusi Jaspal | pp. 249–269
Metaphors of depression in Malay discourse: A cultural and affective
analysis of clinical narratives
Salihah binti Ab Patah, Norliza Jamaluddin & Ng Chong Guan |
pp. 270–295
Ecology, responsibility, and moral accounting: Metaphorical footprints
and traces in Polish online press
Maciej Rosiński | pp. 296–319
Agency in metaphor and translation: A socio-cognitive approach to
deliberate metaphor use in intercultural communication
Sum Wong | pp. 320–342
Book reviews
A. Goatly. 2024. Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis
Reviewed by Hua Shao | pp. 343–350
A. Rogos-Hebda & H. Tissari (Eds.). 2026. At the Crossroads of
Historical and Cognitive Linguistics
Reviewed by Fatemeh Soleimani | pp. 351–357
S. E. Duffy & M. I. Feist. 2023. Time, Metaphor, and Language: A
Cognitive Science Perspective
Reviewed by Bonnie Xinyue Ren | pp. 358–364

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics




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