Metaphor and the Social World
Last updated ISSN 2210-4070
Metaphor and the Social World is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in psychology. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Metaphor and the Social World concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Humor Studies and Applications
- Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
- Categorization, perception, and language
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Education Practices and Challenges
- Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
Key facts
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2210-4070, 2210-4097 |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 337 |
| Publishing since | 2011 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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