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Heritage, Frazer (2018). "When they go low, you go high": a metaphor and metonomy-led analysis of the second American presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Richardson, Peter (2013). A closer walk: a cognitive linguistic study of movement and proximity metaphors and their impact on certainty in Muslim and Christian language. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Chow, Mei Yung Vanliza (2011). A comparative study of the metaphor used in the economic news articles in Britain and Hong Kong. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Zhang, Feifei (2012). A comparative study of wh-words in Chinese EFL textbooks, elicited native and non-native speaker data and written native and non-native speaker corpora. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

McIlroy, Tara (2020). A study of university students in Japan: poetic engagement and English language learning. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Okazaki, Makiko (2012). An investigation into the relationship between learner autonomy support and student motivation in the Japanese university setting. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Kamakura, Yoshihito (2011). Collocation and preposition sense: a phraseological approach to the cognition of polysemy. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Birdsell, Brian Jon (2018). Creative metaphor production in a first and second language and the role of creativity. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Woodin, Greg Alexander (2019). Degrees of metaphoricity: a quantitative gesture analysis. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Russell, Thurstan Steven (2017). Finding the formula: formulaic language use in Hong Kong primary school English textbooks. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Brown, Howard Gordon (2018). Getting started with English-medium instruction in Japan: key factors in program planning and implementation. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Nickalls, Richard (2020). How definite are we about the English article system? Chinese learners, L1 interference and the teaching of articles in English for academic purposes programmes. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Fritz, Isabella (2018). How gesture and speech interact during production and comprehension. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Alsubhi, Mai Salem (2018). How language and culture shape gesture in English, Arabic and second language speakers. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Woodin, Greg ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7992-4991 (2023). Interfaces between language and cognition: metaphor, iconicity, and multimodal numerical communication. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Matsumoto, Yasuyo (2009). Investigating classroom dynamics in Japanese university EFL classrooms. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ford, Samantha Annabelle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6605-6045 (2024). Investigating the creative use and effectiveness of figurative communication in advertising: a collaboration with marketing practitioners. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Assaneea, Asma (2021). Lexical access in bilingual spoken word production: effects of lexical interference. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Tatsumoto, Mika (2011). Perceived effects of peer cooperation on motivation in the Japanese university EFL classroom. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Saaty, Rawan (2016). Teaching L2 metaphor through awareness-raising activities: experimental studies with Saudi EFL learners. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Turner, Sarah Lucy (2014). The development of metaphoric competence in French and Japanese learners of English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Bennett, Phillip James (2017). The effects of raising learners' awareness of metaphorical vocabulary on written production in the content-based classroom. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ramonda, Kris (2016). The role of semantic transparency and metaphorical elaboration through pictures for learning idioms in a second language. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Dilkes, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3307-3161 (2022). The social and psychological work of metaphor: a corpus linguistic investigation. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ford, Samantha Annabelle (2019). The visual language of virtual product design: the semiotics of colour and shape in smartphone app icons. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Hilliard, Amanda (2017). Using cognitive linguistics to teach metaphor and metonymy in an EFL and an ESL context. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Tomei, Joseph George (2018). Using multimodal extended metaphor prompts to induce the production of figurative language in low-intermediate Japanese learners of English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

White, Thomas (2023). Wallpaper: cognitive linguistic approaches to metaphor and creative writing. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.