Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation

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Conceptual transfer: Crosslinguistic effects in categorization and construal* (2010, background): “Some of the more prominent theories of cognitive linguistics include Cognitive Grammar (e.g., Langacker, 2008), conceptualist semantics (e.g., Talmy, 2000), construction grammar (e.g., Croft, 2001), metaphor theory (e.g., Kövecses, 2005) and mental space theory (e.g., Fauconnier & Turner, 2002).”
A metaphor-enriched social cognition. (2010, background): “Linguistic analyses on distinct, and in some cases historically, unrelated languages show that some metaphors manifest themselves across cultures (Asch, 1958; Kovecses, 2005; Sweetser, 1990).”
Multimodal Metaphor in Ten Dutch TV Commercials (2007, background): “As indicated above, cultural or national connotations adhering to a source domain are bound to affect interpretation (Kövecses 2005; (Forceville et al., in preparation a).”
Evaluating Conceptual Metaphor Theory (2011, background): “First, there is significant cross-linguistic work showing that many cultures share similar conceptual metaphors ( Kovecses, 2005 ).”