2025

2025

Abou Mikhael, Kamal. (2025, September 24). The potential of c2xg’s unsupervised learning for metaphor extraction in African American novels. Poster presented at The Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and Natural Language Processing (CxGs+NLP 2025)Düsseldorf, Germany.

Stickles, Elise; and Schuyler Laparle. (2025, August 10). Climate change metaphors: Critical approaches to representation in media and research. Theme panel organized at Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 17). Southfield, Michigan, USA.

Laparle, Schuyler; Ashby, Simone; Hanna, Julian; and Oyku Yildirim. (2025, August 8). Critiquing climate change metaphors through play. Paper presented at Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 17). Southfield, Michigan, USA.

Stickles, Elise; Grogan, Kimberly; Arrieta-Zamudio, Ana; Levesque, Joshua; and Laura Schneider. (2025, August 8). A systematic literature review of climate change related metaphors in English, Spanish and French: Methods and preliminary results. Paper presented at Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 17). Southfield, Michigan, USA.

Sweetser, Eve; Fan, Lorianne & Kimberly Grogan. (2025, August 8). Multimodal metaphor data and enrichment of corpus interpretation. Paper presented at Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 17). Southfield, Michigan, USA.

Grogan, Kimberly; and Elise Stickles. (2025, July 15). Selective projection and viewpoint: How conceptual blending theory clarifies metaphoric framing. Paper presented at International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 17). Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Grogan, Kimberly; Steinfeld, Leah; and Elise Stickles. (2025, July 14). RELIGION metaphors in climate change discourse: A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparison between the US, Canada and France. Paper presented at International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 17). Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Sweetser, Eve; Stickles, Elise; Fan, Lorianne Z.; Cao, Jiani; and Jiaying Zhang. (2025, July 15). PANDEMIC IS WAR metaphors: multimodal blends with varied inputs and meanings. Paper presented at International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 17). Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2024

Abou Mikhael, Kamal; and Elise Stickles. (2024, November 8). Introducing Multilingual MetaNet: A cross-linguistic database of metaphors, semantic frames, and syntactic constructions across varieties of English, French, and Spanish. Poster presented at the virtual conference of The Association for Computers and the Humanities. Online.

Sweetser, Eve; and Elise Stickles. (2024, October 8). MetaNet – Its Current Status and Future Directions. Paper presented at the 21st EURALEX (European Association for Lexicography) International Congress, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Grogan, Kimberly; and Elise Stickles. (2024, June 27). ‘Climate cults’ and ‘climate sin’: Religious metaphors and the framing of climate change in American and Canadian newspapers. Paper presented at the Inaugural Meeting of the Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America, Montréal, Quebec.

2024

Johnstone, Caitlin; and Elise Stickles. (2024). Navigating the climate change minefield: The influence of metaphor on climate doomism. Frontiers in Communication 9, e1380092. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1380092

Hannah Madar


BA Student
Department of English Language and Literatures
University of British Columbia

Jessica Lee


BA Student
Cognitive Systems Program, Cognition and Brain; Minor in Speech Sciences
University of British Columbia

Colby Payne



MA Student
Department of English Language and Literatures
University of British Columbia


Email: colby.payne@icloud.com


 

Ginger Rubin


BA Student
Department of Linguistics and Program in Cognitive Science, minor in Data Science
University of California, Berkeley

Eva Reineck


BA Student
Departments of French and Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley

Ailani Sato-Lim


BA Student
Cognitive Science Program
University of California, Berkeley

Rylie Slaughter


BA Student
Department of Linguistics, minors in Creative Writing & German
University of California, Berkeley