Metaphor variation in Englishes around ...

This special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies explores the use and variation of metaphors in different Englishes around the world. The contributions are grounded in the theoretical framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and address various aspects of Cognitive Sociolinguistics. The articles draw on different types of data including elicitation and experiments, interviews, large electronic corpora, literary works, and multimodal texts such as films in order to study the conceptual and linguistic variability of metaphors across the English-speaking world.