Since the current theories and methods regarding MD come from NLP, it is beneficial to understand prevalent research in this area before focusing on the state of the field in the Digital Humanities. In most of the MD research in NLP, metaphors are understood as a mapping of a source domain like WAR to a target domain like ARGUMENT that can result in the metaphorical linguistic expression “Your claims are <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="bold">indefensible</hi>” (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 4). This Conceptual Metaphor Theory is used to detect conversational and novel metaphors (Ptiček and Dobša 2023).