Metaphor and Symbol

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    Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences.Bien Klomberg, Klavdiia Fadeeva, Joost Schilperoord & Neil Cohn - 2025 - Metaphor and Symbol 40 (1):51-75.
    Visual narratives, like comics, at times show depictions of characters’ imagination, dreams, or flashbacks, which seem incongruent with the ongoing primary narrative. Such “domain constructions” thus integrate an auxiliary domain (e.g. a dream) within the primary domain (the expected, physical storyworld), and may require readers to resolve seemingly non-co-referential figures as co-referential (e.g. when a character’s dream shows that character as an animal). In three self-paced reading experiments, we investigate the processing and understanding of single vs. multiple domains in sequences (...)
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  2. Overall Inhibitory Control Modulated the Comprehension of Chinese Ideographic Idioms Where the Minor Glyph Message Pertains.Zhongyang Sun Xiaodong Zhang Xianglan Chen A. Beijing Language - 2025 - Metaphor and Symbol 40 (1):17-37.
    Idioms are the unity of figurative and formulaic expressions, driving a variety of creative variants used in everyday life. This study explored how Chinese readers made sense of Chinese idioms and their variants, with possible constraints from their strength in overall inhibitory control (OIC). Our new attempt at a comprehensive measure of inhibitory control managed to predict the readers’ self-paced reading behavior in the context of the idioms written in the Chinese ideographic script. Those with poorer OIC were assumed to (...)
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    Metaphorical Framing of Wildfires Shapes What They Are, How They Act, and How We Should Respond.Tyler Marghetis & Teenie Matlock - 2025 - Metaphor and Symbol 40 (1):38-50.
    Uncontrolled wildfires present ever-increasing risks. To respond effectively, we must communicate clearly and compellingly. This is where the scientific study of metaphor can help. Metaphor is the use of one domain to describe or think about another, a process that is often crucial for understanding phenomena that are unusually large, abstract, or complex – phenomena such as wildfires. Here, we describe two metaphorical framings that are widespread in wildfire communication: wildfire as an intentional, hungry beast; and wildfire as an enemy (...)
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    The Framing Effects of Metaphor and Metonymy in Multimodal Campaigns About Plastic Pollution: A Solutions-Oriented and Emotion-Oriented Study.Niamh A. O’Dowd - 2025 - Metaphor and Symbol 40 (1):76-97.
    The use of metaphor and metonymy in social awareness campaigns has been shown as an effective strategy to evoke emotional reactions in the audience and influence behavior change. Using authentic campaign discourse, this study investigated how two multimodal, figurative representations of plastic pollution (plastic pollution is war on nature and plastic pollution is usurpation of marine life) influenced participants’ responses to solutions-oriented and emotions-oriented measures. The data were gathered from two online surveys: Experiment 1 used Likert-scales and free-text responses; these (...)
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  5. Overall Inhibitory Control Modulated the Comprehension of Chinese Ideographic Idioms Where the Minor Glyph Message Pertains.Zhongyang Sun, Xiaodong Zhang & Xianglan Chen - 2025 - Metaphor and Symbol 40 (1):17-37.
    Idioms are the unity of figurative and formulaic expressions, driving a variety of creative variants used in everyday life. This study explored how Chinese readers made sense of Chinese idioms and their variants, with possible constraints from their strength in overall inhibitory control (OIC). Our new attempt at a comprehensive measure of inhibitory control managed to predict the readers’ self-paced reading behavior in the context of the idioms written in the Chinese ideographic script. Those with poorer OIC were assumed to (...)
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    Color Metaphor Mappings for Love Concepts: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Speakers.Huilan Yang, Beibei Huang, Lingling Li & Sumin Zhang - 2025 - Metaphor and Symbol 40 (1):1-16.
    Conceptual metaphors crucially shape how people understand and represent abstract concepts like love. Numerous Chinese linguistic metaphors associate love (beginning/continuing a romantic relationship) with red (e.g. 红豆相思) and lovelorn (breakup/end of a romantic relationship) with gray (e.g. 万念俱灰). However, empirical evidence supporting these color metaphors for love concepts is lacking. This study investigated the red-gray color metaphor for love concepts in Chinese. Experiment 1 used a Stroop test where participants categorized love/lovelorn words in red/gray fonts. Results showed significantly faster latencies (...)
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