Abstract
This volume explores linguistic metaphor identification in a wide variety of languages
and language families. The book is an essential read for anyone interested in researching
language and metaphor, from students to experienced scholars. Its primary goals are to
discuss the challenges involved in applying the Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije
Universiteit (MIPVU) to a range of languages across the globe, and to offer theoretically
grounded advice and guidelines enabling researchers to identify metaphors in multiple
languages in a valid and replicable way. The volume is intended as a practical guidebook
that identifies and discusses procedural challenges of metaphor identification across
languages, thus better enabling researchers to reliably identify metaphor in a multitude of
languages. Although able to be read independently, this volume – written by metaphor researchers
from around the world – is the ideal companion volume for the 2010 Benjamins
book A Method for Linguistic Metaphor Identification: From MIP to MIPVU.
