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Metaphor Function

Metaphor Function is a scholarly construct in visual metaphor theory that specifies the cognitive or representational role through which a visual element implicitly signifies a non-literal meaning by mapping attributes between distinct conceptual domains.

741

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Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatial metaphors

Lera Boroditsky · Cognition · 2000 · 1.8K citations

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The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual System

George Lakoff, Mark H. Johnson · Cognitive Science · 1980 · 1.1K citations

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Metaphtonymy: the interaction of metaphor and metonymy in expressions for linguistic action

Louis Goossens · Cognitive Linguistics · 1990 · 794 citations

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A metaphor-enriched social cognition.

Mark J. Landau, Brian P. Meier, Lucas A. Keefer · Psychological Bulletin · 2010 · 761 citations

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More About Metaphor

Max Black · dialectica · 1977 · 724 citations

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Authors

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  1. RW
    Raymond W. Gibbs

    University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

    15 publications · 1.8K citations

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  2. GJ
    Gerard J. Steen

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    10 publications · 1.7K citations

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  3. ZK
    Zoltán Kövecses

    Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

    9 publications · 884 citations

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  4. GL
    George Lakoff

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    9 publications · 2.7K citations

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  5. JC
    Joep Cornelissen

    Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

    7 publications · 1.3K citations

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Institutions

523

  1. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    12 h-index

    18 publications

    1.2K citations

  2. University of California, Santa Cruz

    Santa Cruz, United States

    12 h-index

    16 publications

    2K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    10 h-index

    15 publications

    2.5K citations

  4. University of Leeds

    Leeds, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    10 publications

    1.5K citations

  5. Bar-Ilan University

    Ramat Gan, Israel

    9 h-index

    20 publications

    1K citations

  6. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    383 citations

  7. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    7 h-index

    11 publications

    1.7K citations

  8. University of Birmingham

    Birmingham, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    522 citations

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Venues

  1. Metaphor and Symbol

    39 publications · 2.9K citations

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  2. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity

    27 publications · 1.3K citations

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  3. Journal of Pragmatics

    8 publications · 1.3K citations

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  4. Brain and Language

    8 publications · 846 citations

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  5. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

    7 publications · 345 citations

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