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  1. Like a Virus. Similes for a Pandemic.Maria-Josep Cuenca & Manuela Romano - 2022 - Metaphor and Symbol 37 (4):269-286.
    The Covid-19 pandemic has had a great impact on the life of every inhabitant of the planet. During 2020 and 2021 a significant amount of work on how the pandemic is being conceptualized and communicated has been done. Most work has focused on the role of metaphor in the construal of specific cognitive frames. In this paper, we turn to a similar but different conceptualization mechanism, i.e. simile. Drawing from recent socio-cognitive and discursive empirical approaches to similes, this paper focuses (...)
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  • Source Domain Associations as Conceptual Assemblages in Trauma Talk – an Association Rule Mining Approach.Dennis Tay & Han Qiu - 2024 - Metaphor and Symbol 39 (2):96-109.
    The qualitative nature of co-deployed or “associated” metaphorical source domains in discourse has been extensively researched, often in terms of whether they share common conceptual roots. There are however few empirical studies on the strength of these associations and their implications. In mental healthcare activities like psychological interviews and counseling, for example, strongly associated sources may suggest unique “conceptual assemblages” that highlight underexplored (dis)similarities between clients or client groups, beyond the typical focus on isolated sources and frequencies. Our case study (...)
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