The RaAM Early Career Research Paper Prize is awarded in conference years for the best research paper published by a researcher who has recently completed a PhD. This page displays a list of prize winners.

2022

Jury: Marcin Trojszczak, Alan Cienki, and Kari Sullivan

Winner: Anaïs Augé, University of East Anglia

Augé, A. (2022). How visual metaphors can contradict verbal occurrences: a cross-linguistic and multimodal analysis of the IMPRINT of climate change. Metaphor and the Social World, 12(1), 1-22. doi:10.1075/msw.20001.aug
2021

Jury: Justina Urbonaite, Ray Gibbs, and Jeannette Littlemore

Winner: David O’Reilly of University of York

O’Reilly, D., & Marsden, E. (2021). Eliciting and measuring L2 metaphoric competence: Three decades on from Low (1988). Applied Linguistics, 42(1), 24-59. doi:10.1093/applin/amz066

2020

Jury: Anne Golden, Iwen (Lily) Su, and Albert Katz

Winner: Nina Julich-Warpakowsk of Leipzig University

Julich, N. (2019). Why do we understand music as moving?. In L. J. Speed, C. O’Meara, L. San Roque, & A. Majid (Eds.), Perception Metaphors (pp. 165-182). John Benjamins. doi:10.1075/celcr.19.09jul

2019

Jury: David O’Reilly (co-ordinator), Marianna Bolognesi, and Min Reuchamps

Winner: Paula Pérez-Sobrino of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Pérez-Sobrino, P., Littlemore, J., & Houghton, D. (in press). The role of figurative complexity in the comprehension and appreciation of advertisements. Applied Linguistics. doi:10.1093/applin/amy039

2016

Jury: Gill Philip (co-ordinator), Albert Katz, and Marc Alexander

Winner: Weiwei Zhang of the Shanghai International Studies University / University of Leuven

Zhang, W., Geeraerts, D., & Speelman, D. (2015). Visualizing onomasiological change: Diachronic variation in metonymic patterns for WOMAN in Chinese. Cognitive Linguistics, 26(2), 289–330. doi:10.1515/cog-2014-0093

2014

Jury: Andreas Musolff (co-ordinator), Gill Philip, and Antonio Barcelona

Winner: Line Brandt of the Copenhagen Business School

Brandt, L. (2009). Metaphor and the communicative mind. Journal of Cognitive Semantics, 5(1–2), 37–72. doi:10.1515/cogsem.2013.5.12.37

2012

Jury: Irene Mittelberg (co-ordinator), Alice Deignan, and Fiona MacArthur

Winner: Dennis Tay of the National University of Singapore

Tay, D. (2012). Applying the notion of metaphor types to enhance counseling protocols. Journal of Counseling & Development, 90(2), 142–149. doi:10.1111/j.1556-6676.2012.00019.x

2010

Jury: John Barnden (co-ordinator), Lynne Cameron, and Graham Low

Winner: Karen Sullivan of the Autonomous University of Barcelona

Sullivan, K. (2009). The languages of art: How representational and abstract painters conceptualize their work in terms of language. Poetics Today, 30(3), 517–560. doi:10.1215/03335372-2009-004

2008

Jury: John Barnden, Lynne Cameron (Co-ordinator), Graham Low, and Tony Berber Sardinha

Winner: Ana M. Piquer Píriz of the University of Extremadura

Piquer Píriz, A. (2008). Reasoning figuratively in early EFL: Some implications for the development of vocabulary. In F. Boers & S. Lindstromberg (Eds.), Cognitive linguistic approaches to teaching vocabulary and phraseology (pp. 219–240). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.