Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gibbs, Jr. -- Validating metaphor research projects / Graham Low -- Getting your sources right : what Aristotle did'nt say / James Edwin Mahon -- Metaphor and discourse : towards a linguistic checklist for metaphor analysis / Gerard Steen -- Identifying and describing metaphor in spoken discourse data / Lynne Cameron -- Who framed SLA research? : problem framing and metaphoric accounts of the SLA research process / David Block -- Bridges to learning : metaphors of teaching, learning and language / Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin -- Corpus-based research into metaphor / Alice Deignan -- "Captain of my own ship" : metaphor and the discourse of chronic illness / Richard Gwyn -- "This paper thinks..." : investigating the acceptability of the metaphor An essay is a person / Graham Low -- When is a dead rainbow not like a dead rainbow ? …”