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this bibliography is still incomplete and is moreover under continuous revision. If you have any corrections or additions, please send an email (see bottom of the page). The idea is that only work is included that discusses an aspect of DMT or uses DMT to do research.

 

Adam, M., & Hafsah, S. (2022). From Happy Wedding to Divorce; Marriage Terms Metaphor in Indonesian Political Coalition . ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 5(1), 56–62. https://doi.org/10.34050/elsjish.v5i1.19855 *

Ahrens, K. (2019). First Lady, Secretary of State and Presidential Candidate: A comparative study of the role-dependent use of metaphor in politics. In J. Perrez, M. Reuchamps, and P.H. Thibodeau (Eds.), Variation in political metaphor, pp. 13-34. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Archibald, J. (2023). Using metaphors in the public interest. International Journal of Language Studies, 17 (4), 125-140. Using metaphors in the public interest.: EBSCOhost. *

Aremu, M.A. (2023). Practs of Deliberate Conceptual Mappings in Ahmed Yerima’s Abobaku. European Journal of English Language and Literature, 11(2), 24-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/ejells.2013/vol11n22440. *

Auge, A. (2023). Situationally-triggered metaphor as political argument: Public responses and argumentative exploitation. Journal of Argumentaiton in Context, 13 (1), 106-130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jaic.23002.aug. *

Beger, A. (2011). Deliberate metaphors? An exploration of the choice and functions of metaphors in US-American college lectures. Metaphorik.de 20, 39-60.

Beger, A. (2015). Metaphors in psychology genres: Counselling vs. academic lectures. In J.B. Herrmann and T. Berber Sardinha (Eds.), Metaphor in specialist discourse, pp. 163–190. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Beger, A. (2019). The contested notion of ‘deliberate metaphor’: What can we learn from ‘unclear’ cases in academic lectures? Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 7 (1): 51-66.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2019-0004. *

Beger, A. (2016). Different functions of (deliberate) metaphor in teaching scientific concepts. Metaphorik.de 26, 61-86.

Beger, A. (2019). The Role of (Deliberate) Metaphor in Communicating Knowledge in Academic Discourse: An Analysis of College Lectures from Different Disciplines. Peter Lang. *

Beger, A., and O. Jaekel (2015). The cognitive role of metaphor in teaching science: Examples from physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, and philosophy. Philosophical Inquiries 3(1), 89-132.

Beger, A., and T.H. Smith (Eds.) (2020a). How metaphors guide, teach and popularize science. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Beger, A., and T.H. Smith (2020b). Introduction. In A. Beger and T.H. Smith (Eds.), How metaphors guide, teach and popularize science, pp. 1-37. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Bock von Wülfingen, B. (2020). Metaphor and the popularization of contested technologies. In A. Beger and T.H. Smith (Eds.), How metaphors guide, teach and popularize science, pp. 113-140. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Bogetić, K. (2017). Language is a beautiful creature, not an old fridge: Direct metaphors as corrective framing devices. Metaphor in the Social World 7 (2), 190-212.

Bolognesi, M. (2022) Metaphors in intercultural communication. In I. Kecskes (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Pragmatics, pp. 216-244. Cambridge: CUP. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108884303.010

Borčić, N., and I. Čulo (2019). The rhetorical use of political metaphors before, during, and after the presidency: Television interviews with the former Croatian president. In J. Perrez, M. Reuchamps, and P.H. Thibodeau (Eds.), Variation in political metaphor, pp. 61-82. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Bougher, L. D. (2012): The case for metaphor in political reasoning and cognition. Political Psychology 33, 145-163.

Cameron, L., and A. Deignan (2003). Combining Large and Small Corpora to Investigate Tuning Devices Around Metaphor in Spoken Discourse. Metaphor & Symbol, 18 (3), 149-160. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327868MS1803_02. *

Charteris-Black, J. (2012). Forensic deliberations on ‘purposeful metaphor’. Metaphor in the Social World 2 (1), 1-21.

Charteris-Black, J.  (2013) What is the purpose of metaphor in political discourse? An answer from Critical Metaphor Analysis. Source and year?

Crespo-Fernández, E. (2023). The Death Taboo: Euphemism and Metaphor in Epitaphs from the English Cemetery of Malaga, Spain. Languages 8: 215. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030215. *

Cuberos, R., Rosado, E. & J. Perera. (2019). Using deliberate metaphor in discourse: Native vs. non-native text production. In A.J. Silvestre-López (Ed.), Current approaches to metaphor analysis in discourse, pp. 235-256. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Cuccio, V. (2018). Attention to metaphor: From neurons to representations. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Cuccio, V. and G.J. Steen (2019). Deliberate metaphors and embodied simulation. In I. Navarro I Ferrando (Ed.), Current approaches to metaphor analysis and discourse, pp. 185-204. Berlin: Mouton & De Gruyter. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110629460-009. *

Cushing, I. (2019). Resources not rulebooks: Metaphors for grammar in teachers’ metalinguistic discourse. Metaphor and the social world, 9(2), 155-176.

Dalpanagioti, T. (2024). Integrating frame semantic resources in EFL instruction with a focus on deliberate metaphor. In A. Klosa-Kuckelhaus and M. Nied Curcio (Eds.), Dictionary use and dictionary teaching: New challenges in a multilingual, digital and global world, pp. 271-297. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter. DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111373294. *

De Joode, J., and H. van Loon (2013). Selecting and analyzing metaphors in the Hebrew Bible: Cognitive linguistics and the literary. In K. Smelik and K. Vermeulen (Eds), Approaches to literary readings of ancient Jewish writings, pp. 39-52. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

De Vries, C., Reijnierse, W.G., and R. Willems. (2018). Eye movements reveal readers’ sensitivity to deliberate metaphors during narrative reading. Scientific Study of Literature, 8(1), 135–164.

Declercq, J., and L. van Poppel (2024). Metaphors in Interaction: Reusing, developing and resisting metaphors of illness, the body and medical treatment in chronic pain consultations. Journal of Pragmatics, 221, 168-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2024.01.001

Deignan, A. (2011). Deliberateness is not unique to metaphor. Metaphor in the Social World 1 (1), 57-60.

Deignan, A., Littlemore, J., and E. Semino (2013). Figurative Language, Genre and Register. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Di Biase-Dyson, C. (2018). The figurative network: tracking the use of metaphorical language in Ramesside literary texts. In S. Kubisch and U. Rummel (Eds.), The Ramesside Period in Egypt: Studies into Cultural and Historical Processes of the 19th and 20th Dynasties, pp. 33-44. Berlin: De Gruyter.

A typological framework of attention-drawing strategies for Ancient Egyptian metaphorical language. In C. Di Biase-Dyson and M. Egg (Eds.), Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities, pp. 39-62. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Di Biase-Dyson, C. (2020). A typological framework of attention-drawing strategies for Ancient Egyptian metaphorical language. In C. Di Biase-Dyson and M. Egg (Eds.), Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities, pp. 39-62. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Di Biase-Dyson, C., and M. Egg (2020a). Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Di Biase-Dyson, C., and M. Egg. (2020b). Drawing attention to metaphor: An introduction to the debate. In C. Di Biase-Dyson and M. Egg (Eds.), Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities, pp. 1-14. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Dorst, A.G. (2011b). Personification in discourse: Linguistic forms, conceptual structures and communicative functions. Language and literature 20(2), 113-135.

Dorst, A.G. (2015). More or different metaphors in fiction? A quantitative cross-register comparison. Language and literature 24 (1), 3-22.

Egg, M. (2020). To those walking in the footsteps of the faith: Deliberate metaphor in the Pauline epistles. In C. Di Biase-Dyson and M. Egg (Eds.), Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities, pp. 229-262. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Erdmann, S. (2016). Figurative language and multicultural education: metaphors of language acquisition and retention. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 37(2), 184-188.

Ervas, Francesca (2017). Another metaphor is possible: Challenging social stereotypes in figurative language comprehension. Reti, saperi, linguaggi, 1, 79-96.

Fedriani, C. (2020). Conventionality, deliberateness, and creativity in metaphors: toward a typology of figurative expressions in Latin semantics. CLUB Working Papers in Linguistics, 4, 33-46.

Felekidou, D. (2020). Figurative framing in the aftermath of a financial crisis: The case of metaphor in the speech of Greece’s PM in Ithaca, August 2018. Μελέτες για την ελληνική γλώσσα, 40, 633-642.

Fenton-Smith, 2019 *** In J. Perrez, M. Reuchamps, and P.H. Thibodeau (Eds.), Variation in political metaphor, pp. 13-34. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ferella, C. (2020). Early Greek medical metaphors and the question of deliberateness. In C. Di Biase-Dyson and M. Egg (Eds.), Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities, pp. 129-158. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Finsen, A.B., Steen, G.J., and J. Wagemans (2019). An argumentative reconstruction of the computer metaphor of the brain. Journal of Argumentation in Context 8(3), 317-335.

Finsen, A.B., Steen, G.J., and J. Wagemans (2021). How do scientists criticize the computer metaphor of the brain? Using an argumentative pattern for reconstructing resistance to metaphor. Journal of Argumentation in Context 10(2), 171-201.

Flusberg, Stephen, Matlock, Teenie, and Paul Thibodeau (2018). War metaphors in public discourse. Metaphor & Symbol 33 (1), 1-18.

Frezza, G. (2016). Metaphor: The good argument in science communication. RIFL, 2: 21-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4396/20161206. *

Gibbs, R.W. Jr. (2011a). Are ‘deliberate’ metaphors really deliberate? A question of human consciousness and action. Metaphor and the Social World 1 (1), 26-52.

Gibbs, R.W. jr. (2011b). Advancing the debate on deliberate metaphor. Metaphor and the Social World 1 (1), 67-69.

Gibbs, R.W. jr. (2015a). Do pragmatic signals affect conventional metaphor understanding? A failed test of deliberate metaphor theory. Journal of Pragmatics 90, 77-87.

Gibbs, R.W. jr. (2015b): Does deliberate metaphor theory have a future? Journal of Pragmatics 90, 73-76.

Gibbs, R.W., jr. (2017). Metaphor wars: Conceptual metaphors in human life. Cambridge: CUP.

Gibbs, R.W. jr., and E. Chen (2016). Taking metaphor studies back to the Stone Age: A reply to Xu, Zhang, and Wu. Intercultural Pragmatics 14 (1), 117-124.

Gibbs, R.W., jr., and E. Chen (2018). Metaphor and the automatic mind. Metaphor in the Social World 8 (1), 40-63.

Górska, E. (2010). “LIFE IS MUSIC: A case study of a novel metaphor and its use in discourse”. English Text Construction, 3(2), 275-293.

Gómez-Moreno, J.M. (2016). Refining the understanding of novel metaphor in specialized language discourse. Terminology, 22(1), 1-29.

Guo, A. (2025), Teaching business concepts by the use of deliberate metaphors. Singapore:  Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9781-3. *

Hamann, A. (2020). In search of deliberateness in Maya glyphic texts. In C. Di Biase-Dyson and M. Egg (Eds.), Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities, pp. 189-206. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Hassanein, M.A. (2022). Deliberate Metaphor Identification in English and Arabic from a Multidisciplinary Perspective. CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education n. pag. Web. عنوان البحث. *

Herrmann, J. B. (2015). High on metaphor, low on simile? An examination of metaphor type in sub-registers of academic prose. In J.B. Herrmann and T. Berber Sardinha (Eds.), Metaphor in specialist discourse, pp. 163–190. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Heyvaert, 2019. Fairies, Christmas miracles and sham marriages: A diachronic analysis of deliberate metaphors in Belgian political discourse. In J. Perrez, M. Reuchamps, and P.H. Thibodeau (Eds.), Variation in political metaphor, pp. 35-60. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Heyvaert, P., Randour, F., Dodeigne, J., Perrez, J., and M. Reuchamps (2020). Metaphors in political communication: A case study of the use of deliberate metaphors in non-institutional political interviews. Journal of Language and Politics, 19(2), 201–225

Jansen, C., Van Nistelrooij, M., Olislagers, K., Van Sambeek, M., and De Stadtler, L. (2010). A fire station in your body: Metaphors in educational texts on HIV/AIDS. South African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 28 (2), 133-139.

Jiao, M., and H. Wei (2023). A study on the translation of deliberate metaphors in Xi Jinping important speeches at the second belt and road forum for international cooperation based on Wmatrix. Research Journal of English Language and Literature (RJELAL), 11(2), 132-140. MA JIAO

Jiménez Muñoz, A.J., and A. C. Lahuerta Martínez. (2017). A metaphor-metonymy continuum? Evidence from cross-field L2 set texts. Ibérica, 34, 257-278.

Jing, Y., and G. Jiang (2024). “No man is an island”: How Chinese netizens use deliberate metaphors to provide “depression sufferers” with social support. Digital Health, 10. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076241228521. *

Karapetjana, I., and G. Roziņa (2021). Metaphoric conceptualization of social reality in the language of news media. Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 11, 65–78.

Keating, J. (2021). Populist discourse and active metaphors in the 2016 US presidential elections. Intercultural Pragmatics, 18(4), 499-531.

Kővecses, Z. (2019). Some consequences of a multi-level view of metaphor. In I. Navarro I Ferrando (Ed.), Current approaches to metaphor analysis and discourse, pp. 19-33. Berlin: Mouton & De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110629460-002 *

Krennmayr, T., Bowdle, B., Mulder, G., and G.J. Steen (2014). Economic competition is like auto racing: Building metaphorical schemas when reading text. Metaphor and the Social World 4(1), 65-89.

Lancaster, M. (2021). Metaphor research and the Hebrew Bible. Currents in Biblical Research, 19(3), 235-285.

Laineste, L., and W. Chłopicki, (2019). Co-construction of metaphors in Estonian conversation. Journal of Pragmatics, 153(11), 92-102.

Littlemore, J. (2015). Metaphor in specialist discourse: Insights and implications for metaphor studies and beyond. In J.B. Herrmann and T. Berber Sardinha (Eds.), Metaphor in specialist discourse, pp. 299–314. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Littlemore, J., Krennmayr, T., Turner, J., and S. Turner. (2014). An Investigation into Metaphor Use at Different Levels of Second Language Writing. Applied Linguistics, 35(2), 117-144.

Liu, X. (2024). A Deliberate Metaphorical Framing Analysis in Multimodal Cartoons — By Analyzing Environmental Cartoons. Open Journal Systems. *

Lu, Q., and A. Deignan (2024). Unconventional metaphor use in the writing of Chinese learners of English. SAGE Open, 14 (2). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241252293. *

Luque Colmenero, M. O. (2021). «Como si sus ojos fueran soles»: la marcación de la metáfora en la audiodescripción de arte para personas ciegas y con baja vision. Trans, 25, 333–347. https://doi.org/10.24310/TRANS.2021.V1I25.12380. *

Maalej, Z., and A. Zibin (2024). Metaphors They Kill by: Dehumanization of Palestinians by Israeli Officials and Sympathizers. International Journal of Arabic-English Studies, 25(1). https://doi.org/10.33806/ijaes.v25i1.693 *

Mujagić, M. (2018). Dangerous waters metaphor in news discourse on refugee crisis. metaphorik.de 28, 99-131.

Mujagić, M., and S. Berberović. (2019). The IMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS metaphor as a deliberate metaphor in British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian media. ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 7(1), 22-51.

Mujagić, M., and A. Pehlivanović. (2022). On deliberate use of THE TSUNAMI OF ISLAMIZATION in public discourse. (PDF) ON DELIBERATE USE OF THE TSUNAMI OF ISLAMIZATION METAPHOR IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE. *

Mujagić, M. (2023). Figurative Conceptualizations of Nations, Countries, and Institutions in Newspaper Articles on Migration. Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 32(2), 71-91. https://doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.32.2.04. *

Mujagić, M., and E. Dupanović. (2024). Figurative language of segregation: the phenomenon of “two schools under one roof”. ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 12(2), 103-130.  http://dx.doi.org/10.51558/2303-4858.2024.12.2.103*

Mujagić, M. (2024). POLITICS metaphor in British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian migration discourse. Russian Journal of Linguistics, 28 (1), 144-165. https://doi.org/10.22363/2687-0088-34534 *

Müller, C. (2011). Are ‘deliberate’ metaphors really special? Deliberateness in the light of metaphor activation. Metaphor and the Social World 1(1), 61–66.

Musolff, A. (2011). Migration, media and “deliberate metaphors.” Metaphorik.de, 21. 7-19.

Musolff, A. (2015). Dehumanizing metaphors in UK immigrant debates in press and online media. Journal of Language aggression and conflict 3 (1), 41-56.

Musolff, A. (2016a). Political metaphor analysis: Discourse and scenarios. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Musolff, A. (2016b). Cross-cultural variation in deliberate metaphor interpretation Metaphor in the Social World 6 (2), 205-224

Nacey, S. (2013). Metaphors in learner English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Nacey, S. (2017). Metaphor comprehension and production in a second language. In E. Semino and Z. Demjén, Z. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language, pp. 503-516. New York: Routledge.

Navarro i Ferrando, I. (2016). Metaphorical aspects in cancer discourse. In P. Ordóñez-López and N. Edo-Marzá, N. (Eds.), Medical discourse in professional, academic and popular Settings, pp. 120-148. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 120-148.

Navarro i Ferrando, I. (2017). Conceptual metaphor types in oncology: Cognitive and communicative functions. Ibérica, 34, 163-188.

Navarro i Ferrando, I. (2021). Metaphorical concepts and their cognitive functions in medical discourse: Research papers vs. press articles. ESP Today, 9(1), 150-174.

Negrea-Busuioc, E. (2023) ‘Vaccine as a cheat sheet’: a metaphor gone awry on Facebook. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1198172. *

Negrea-Busuic, E., and D. Ritchie (2015). When ‘seeking love is travel by bus’: Deliberate metaphors, stories and humor in a Rumanian song. Metaphor in the Social World 5 (1), 62-83.

Ng, J.W. (2016). Hottest brand, coolest pedagogy: Approaches to corporate branding in Singapore higher education sector. Journal of Marketing for higher education 26 (1), 41-63.

Ng, J.W., and V. Koller (2013). Deliberate conventional metaphors in images: The case of corporate branding discourse. Metaphor & Symbol 28 (3), 131-147.

Oanh, H. T. K.(2024). A DMT-Based Study on Interpreting Conceptual Metaphors from Quotations of Climate Action Discourses of Top Leaders around the UN. International Journal of Language and Literary Studies. 6 (3).1-15. http://doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v6i3.1733. *

Pang, Y., and L. Li (2022). Deliberate metaphors in English as a lingua franca interactions: characteristics and constructing processes. Asian Englishes, 26 (1), 156-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2023.2216867. *

Pehlivanović, A., and M. Mujagić (2022). The linguistic metaphor storm clouds in public discourse on COVID 19. Post Scriptum, 11-12, 339-351.

Perrez, J., and M. Reuchamps (2014). Deliberate metaphors in political discourse: The case of citizen discourse. metaphorik.de 20, 7-41.

Perrez, J., and M. Reuchamps (2015). A crazy machine or a strong “living apart together” relationship? The role of metaphors in citizens’ perception of Belgian federalism. Mots. Les langages du politique, 109.

Perrez, J., Reuchamps, M., and P. Thibodeau (Eds.) (2019). Variation in political metaphor. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Piata, A. (2020). Is all poetic metaphor deliberate? Exploring the relationship between verbal creativity and deliberateness. In C. Di Biase-Dyson and M. Egg (Eds.), Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities, pp. 207-228. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Pilgram, R., and Van Poppel, L. (2021). The strategic use of metaphor in argumentation. In R. Boogaart, H. Jansen, M. van Leeuwen (Eds.), The language of argumentation, pp. 191 – 212. Cham: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52907-9_10 *

Prazmo, E.M. (2019). “Leftie snowflakes” and other metaphtonymies in the British political discourse. Journal of Language and Politics, 18(3), 371-392. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.17073.pra *

Putterer, E. (2022). Von der Conceptual Metaphor Theory zur Deliberate Metaphor Theory. Initium, Eotvos Lorand University, ELTE. (99+) Von der Conceptual Metaphor Theory zur Deliberate Metaphor Theory. *

Reijnierse, W.G., Burgers, C.J., Krennmayr, T., and G.J. Steen (2018a). DMIP: A method for identifying potentially deliberate metaphor in language use. Corpus Pragmatics, 2(2), 129-147.

Reijnierse, W.G., Burgers, C.J., Krennmayr, T., and G.J. Steen (2018b). On metaphorical views, dynamite, and doodlings: Functions of domain adjectives in metaphorical domain constructions. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 16(2), 431-452.

Reijnierse, W.G., Burgers, C.J., Krennmayr, T., and G.J. Steen (2019). Metaphor in communication: The distribution of potentially deliberate metaphor across register and word class. Corpora, 14(3), 301-326.

Reijnierse, W.G., Burgers, C.J., Krennmayr, T., and G.J. Steen (2020). The role of co-text in the analysis of potentially deliberate metaphor. In M. Egg and C. di Biase-Dyson (Eds.), Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities, pp. 15-38. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Renardel de Lavalette, K., Andone, C., and G.J. Steen (2019a). “I did not say that the Government should be plundering anybody’s savings.” Resisting metaphors expressing starting points in parliamentary debates. Journal of Language and Politics 18 (5), 718-738.

Renardel de Lavalette, K., Andone, C., and G.J. Steen (2019b). Figurative analogies and how they are resisted in British Public Bill Committee debates. Metaphor and the Social World 9(1), 107-130.

Renardel de Lavalette, K., Andone, C., and G.J. Steen (2022). The use of clarificatory metaphors in argumentative discourse in British Public Bill Committee debates. Text and Talk, 42(5), 735-754. DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0101

Rewiś-Łętkowska, A. (2019). The linguistic, conceptual and communicative dimension of metaphor: A corpus study of conversational Polish. Journal of Pragmatics, 153, 80-91.

Ritchie, David, & Elena Negrea-Busuic (2014). “Now everybody knows I’m a serial killer”. Spontaneous intentionality in conversational metaphor and story telling Metaphor in the Social World 4 (2), 174-198.

Roncero, C., de Almeida, R.G., Martin, D.C., and Marco de Caro (2016). Aptness predicts metaphor preference in the lab and on the internet. Metaphor and Symbol, 31(1), 31-46.

Rossi, M. G. (, 2016.)  Metaphors for patient education: A pragmatic-argumentative approach applying to the case of diabetes care. RIFL, 2, 34-48.

Schoor, C. (2015). Political metaphor, a matter of purposeful style: On the rational, emotional, and strategic purposes of political metaphor. Metaphor in the Social World 5 (1), 82-101.

Silvestre-López, A.J. (2019). Deliberate metaphors in Buddhist teachings about meditation. In A.J. Silvestre-López (Ed.), Current approaches to metaphor analysis in discourse, pp. 205-234. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Silvestre-López, A.J. (2020). Conceptual metaphor in meditation discourse: An analysis of the spiritual perspective. Journal of Language Studies Volume 20(1), 35-53.

Silvestre-López, A.J. (2022). Uses and functions of conceptual metaphor in pedagogical meditation discourse. ELUA, 38, 47-72.

Silvestre-López, A.J., and I. Navarro i Ferrando. (2017). Metaphor in the conceptualization of meditative practices. Metaphor and the Social World, 7(1), 26–46.

Silvestre-López, A.J., Barrós-Loscertales, B., and D. Pinazo. (2021). Metaphor can influence meta-thinking and affective levels in guided meditation. Current Psychology.

Skorczynska, H., and Ahrens, K. (2015). A corpus-based study of metaphor signalling variations across three genres. Text & Talk 35 (3), 359-381.

Smith, T.H., and A. Beger (2020). Conclusion: when metaphors serve scientific ends. In A. Beger and T.H. Smith (Eds.), How metaphors guide, teach and popularize science, pp. 297-318. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Steen, G.J. (2008). The paradox of metaphor: Why we need a three-dimensional model for metaphor. Metaphor & Symbol 23, 213-241.

Steen, G.J. (2010): When is metaphor deliberate? In Johannesson, N.-L., and D. Minugh (Eds), Selected Papers from the 2008 Stockholm Metaphor Festival, pp. 43-63. Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis.

Steen, G.J. (2011a). What does ‘really deliberate’ really mean? More thoughts on metaphor and consciousness. Metaphor and the Social World 1, 53-56.

Steen, G.J. (2011b). The contemporary theory of metaphor—now new and improved! Review of Cognitive Linguistics 9(1), 26-64.

Steen, G.J. (2011c). From three dimensions to five steps: The value of deliberate metaphor. Metaphorik.de 21, 83-110.

Steen, G.J. (2013). Deliberate metaphor affords conscious metaphorical cognition. Journal of Cognitive Semiotics 5 (1-2), 179-197.

Steen, G.J. (2015). Developing, testing and interpreting Deliberate Metaphor Theory. Journal of Pragmatics. DOI: S0378216615000946.

Steen, G.J. (2016a). Mixed metaphor is a case of deliberate metaphor. In R.W. Gibbs, jr., (Ed.), Mixed metaphor, pp. 113-132. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Steen, G.J. (2017a). Deliberate Metaphor Theory: Basic Assumptions, Core tenets, Remaining Issues. Intercultural Pragmatics 14(1), 1-24.

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