“…The majority of corpus-linguistic studies were concerned with metaphorical expressions and mappings within a limited domain, e.g., WAR, BUSINESS, FOOD or PLANT metaphors (Santa Ana, 1999;Izwaini, 2003;Koller, 2004;Skorczynska Sznajder and Pique-Angordans, 2004;Lu and Ahrens, 2008;Low et al, 2010;Hardie et al, 2007), in a particular genre or type of discourse (Charteris-Black, 2000;Cameron, 2003;Lu and Ahrens, 2008;Martin, 2006;Beigman Klebanov and Flor, 2013).…”