Sebastian Reimann and Tatjana Scheffler (Bochum University, Germany) have published a computational linguistic study of metaphor use on an online Reddit forum about religion in their Metaphors in Online Religious Communication: A Detailed Dataset and Cross-Genre Metaphor Detection – ACL Anthology. The paper addresses automatic metaphor identification and subsequent deliberate metaphor identification in a highly innovative and persuasive manner.

Dutch media responses focus on ‘Daddy’ metaphor in NATO chief Mark Rutte’s treatment of President Trump’s needs during recent summit. This reveals deep issues about metaphor and sincerity: see ‘Daddy sometimes has to use strong language’.

Metaphor and the Social World have published a new DMT article in their online first section: https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.25010.ste

It is called ‘Peace talks as a card game: What can metaphor researchers do?’

Here is the abstract: ‘This contribution offers an analysis of the role of the card game metaphor used by President Trump in his fiery exchange with President Zelensky during their meeting in the White House to discuss the possibility of peace talks for the war in Ukraine. It aims to show what metaphor researchers can contribute to the public understanding of this meeting.’

The publication of an elaborated and formalized model of  Deliberate Metaphor Theory (Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory | Gerard J. Steen) warrants the launch of this web site, https://metaphorinaction.nl, which is entirely devoted to this new theory of metaphor.

A brief version of many of the ideas presented in Slowing Metaphor Down can be found here: Frontiers | Thinking by metaphor, fast and slow: Deliberate Metaphor Theory offers a new model for metaphor and its comprehension.

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