ABSTRACT
Metaphor has certainly had a long and interesting voyage: from being considered a purely poetic device to being seen as one of the central ways of how the authors conceptualize the world around us; from being regarded as a special form of language that is difficult to comprehend to being seen as something that is not secondary to literal language; from being considered an almost exclusively linguistic form of expression to being viewed as a form of expression that regularly crosses the boundaries between modes of expressions. The fact that metaphor is so overwhelmingly present in our lives and everyday communication, in many different forms, at different levels of conventionality, and when we are speaking different languages, makes it a phenomenon that naturally invites scholars to study it from different angles, which then opens up possibilities for exciting collaborations and findings.
