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1: Introduction: Metaphor in language and culture across the world Englishers -- 2: Important discoveries in the study of metaphor in world Englishers -- 3: Comparing large electronic corpora and elicitation techniques in research on conceptual metaphor and idioms in world Englishers: 4: Animal-based of womanhood in English literacy works set in the Indo-Aryan and Dravidian regions of India -- 5: Conceptualization of eagle in varieties of English: the case of Nigerian English -- 6: Building metaphors in Hong Kong policy addresses -- 7: Embodiment across Englishers: the comprehension of metaphors in popular song lyrics in Canadian, Austrian, and American English -- 8: Genres and text types from a cross-varietal and cognitive-cultural perspective: a case study on the contextualization of classified adverts -- 9: Segregation and cooperation: cultural models of gender in Indian and Nigerian English -- 10: Cultural metaphors of personification in Aotearoa English -- 11: Transfer of metaphorical conceptualization from the L1 into English: notes on an emerging project