近年来，语言学研究发展迅猛，新成果不断涌现。鉴于此，上海外语教育出版社邀请语言学界知名专家从约翰·本杰明斯出版公司(John Benjamins Publishing Company)等国际著名出版社推出的多种语言学期刊中精选最具代表性或前沿意义的优秀论文，按主题编为不同分册，并撰写中文导读，组成“语言学国际学术期刊论文选”丛书，以帮助读者了解语言学领域最新成果和发展动态，促进语言学研究的发展。
本书从《认知语言学评论》(Review of Cognitive Linguistics)和《隐喻与社会世界》（Metaphor and the Social World)近年刊发的文章中精选了25篇隐喻研究方面的论文，并按主题分为“隐喻理论、隐喻认知机制及其应用”、“多模态隐喻研究”和“社会认知层面的隐喻研究”三个部分，旨在帮助读者更好地了解近年来隐喻研究的内容、研究方法和发展趋势，为进一步推动国内隐喻理论研究的深化和发展提供参考。

I Linguistic Metaphors,their cognitive mechanisms and applications
Are ‘deliberate'metaphors really deliberate?:A question of
human consciousness and action
An empirical approach to the use and comprehension of mixed
metaphors
At the heart of cognition,communication,and language:The
value of psychotherapy to metaphor study
A corpus-based approach to emotion metaphors in Korean:A
case study of anger,happiness,and sadness
A journey towards employment:Metaphorical representations of
social welfare in New Zealand
Are metaphorical paths and roads ever paved?:Corpus analysis
of real and imagined journeys
The nature of domains and the relationships between them
in metaphorization
On the repetition of words with the potential for metaphoric
extension in conversations between native and non-native
speakers of English
The two-Mover hypothesis and the significance of “direction of
motion”in temporal metaphors
Productivity of Spanish verb-noun compounds:Patterns of
metonymy and metaphor
Defining the cognitive mechanisms underlying reactions to
foreign accented speech:An experimental approach
How patent can patents be?:Exploring the impact of figurative
language on the engineering patents genre
Ⅱ Multimodal Metaphors
The movements of the economy:Conceptualizing the economy
via bodily movement metaphors
A study in cinematic subjectivity:Metaphors of perception
in film
Processing visual metaphor:A study in thinking out loud
Embodied meaning construction:Multimodal metaphor and
expressive movement in speech,gesture,and feature film
The GoOD Is LIGHT and BAD IS DARK metaphor in feature
films
Metaphor and symbol:SEARCHING FOR ONE'S IDENTITY IS
LOOKING FOR A HOME in animation film
Multimodal metaphors in contemporary experimental literature
The visual representation of metaphor:A social semiotic
approach
III Metaphors on social cognitive dimensions
Metaphoric cognition as social activity:Dissolving the divide
between metaphor in thought and communication
Variation,structure and norms
The contemporary theory of metaphor -now new and improved!
Cognitive Sociolinguistics in L2-variety dictionaries of English
A cognitive sociolinguistic approach to metaphor and denominative
variation:A case study of marine biology terms