Research

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. […]

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 […]

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

2023

Grogan, Kimberly. (2023, June 28). “Multimodal persuasion: Metaphor in climate change activism”. Researching and Applying Metaphor 16. Alcalá de Henares, Spain. [download poster pdf] Johnstone, Caitlin, Browning, Celeste, and Elise Stickles. (2023, June 28). “Diffusing the time bomb – Differential impacts of metaphor on climate doomism”. Researching and Applying Metaphor 16. Alcalá de Henares, Spain. […]

2022

Magaña, Dalia. (2022). Discurso sobre salud y atención sanitaria (Health and health care discourse). In C. L. Ferrero, I. E. Carranza, & T. A. van Dijk (Eds.), Estudios del discurso / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Discourse Studies (pp. 381-394). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367810214

2021

Magaña, Dalia; and Teenie Matlock. (2021). “Esta batalla la tenía que ganar”: La metáfora, modalidad y el género en narrativas de cáncer. Revista signos, 54(105), 191-213. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-09342021000100191

MetaNet edited volume

MetaNet edited volume

Petruck, Miriam R. L. (Ed.) (2018). MetaNet. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.100 Note: This volume reprints the papers originally printed in a special issue of Constructions and Frames with an epilogue by Eve Sweetser.

2019

Magaña, Dalia. (2019). Cultural competence and metaphor in mental healthcare interactions: A linguistic perspective. Patient Education and Counseling, 102(12), 2192-2198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2019.06.010 Magaña, Dalia. (2020). Praying to win this battle: Cancer Metaphors in Latina and Spanish Women’s Narratives. Health Communication, 35(5), 649-657. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2019.1582310 Sweetser, Eve; David, Oana; and Elise Stickles. (2019). MetaNet: Automated metaphor identification across languages and […]

2018

David, Oana; and Teenie Matlock. (2018). Cross-linguistic automated detection of metaphors for poverty and cancer. Language and Cognition, 10(3), 467-493. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2018.11 Magaña, Dalia, and Teenie Matlock. (2018). How Spanish speakers use metaphor to describe their experiences with cancer. Discourse & Communication, 12(6), 627-644. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481318771446

2022

Stickles, Elise; Laparle, Schuyler; Browning, Celeste; Du, Vivian; Jones, Kelly; Lahouli; Med Amine; Lozano, Inés; and Eve Sweetser. (2022, September 21). Challenges for multilingual metaphor corpora: Methods and guiding principles. Researching and Applying Metaphor 15. Bialystok, Poland. [download pdf] Laparle, Schuyler; Stickles, Elise; Sweetser, Eve; and Bryce Wallace. (2022, September 21). Moral framing and pandemic metaphors. […]