Frontmatter -- Contents -- Merging tenets and tools in socio-political metaphor analysis -- I Construing reality through metaphor -- Similes vs. metaphors. A case study on the conceptualisation of Covid-19 pandemic -- From the closet to the stars. Metaphoric construals of gender identity in tumblr. A case study -- "A wall of human misery": Critical metaphor analysis and the discursive representation of Ukrainian refugees in British news articles -- Polarising metaphors in far-right populist tweets: A comparative crosslinguistic study -- Imagine a cell as a medieval fortress: Metaphor as a tool of explanation and persuasion in the Serbian pro-vaccination discourse -- II Contesting the world through metaphor -- War metaphors and conspiracy theories -- Fighting metaphors: Social resistance to mainstream metaphors -- The construction and survivability of "blaming" metaphors on Chinese social media -- III Performing ideology through multimodal metaphor -- Metaphorical perspectives on women in armed conflicts. Female depictions in the murals of Northern Ireland -- Identifying and interpreting visual metaphors in political cartoons -- Image-schematic structuring of metaphor in visual art from the perspective of socio-political context. A case study of Jerzy Kalina's sculpture Pomnik Anonimowego Przechodnia 'Monument of an Anonymous Passer-by' -- Fire, war and revolution: Metaphor in media discourses of political protest -- Index