A really interesting idea! Best of luck with this project. The first thing that popped into my mind was Shakespeare. There are certainly a lot of references to blood in Macbeth (though probably most are literal). There is a recent paper in Review of Cognitive Linguistics (Vol 19, No 1) about blood metaphors in Arabic. Maybe that was the inspiration for your project?

Check the collection of studies on heart metaphor, edited by F. Sharifian. There may be some concerns there...

Thanks Brian and Gayane for your contribution.

To Brian:

The idea for the project is as you said: I was writing a review of Zibin for the Review of Cognitive Linguistics when I realized that "blood" deserves a separate study from "heart" and other body parts.

To Gayane:

I have a chapter on the heart in Sharifian et al (2008), but "blood" is dealt with in connection with the heart. What I want is study "blood" as a source domain.

Thanks again.

Hope you check the following papers

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378216611001391

This is a highly interesting topic as blood is frequently used to express ideas in everyday conversation. It has been mentioned in numerous publications like Helman's (2007) Culture, health and illness and Kövecses's (2015) Where metaphors come from: Reconsidering context in metaphor. However, there have been very few publications dedicated to blood metaphors. Three significant papers, in addition to Simó (2011), are listed below.

• Charteris-Black, J. (2001). Blood sweat and tears: A corpus based cognitive analysis of'blood'in English phraseology. Studi italiani di linguistica teorica ed applicata, 30(2), 273-287.
• Zibin, A. (2021). Blood metaphors and metonymies in Jordanian Arabic and English. Review of Cognitive Linguistics. Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association, 19(1), 26-50.
• Bosman, N., & Taljard, E. (2021). A Cross-Linguistic Study of BLOOD Metaphors in Afrikaans and Northern Sotho. Language Matters, 52(1), 3-29.

All the best.

Just to add to these suggestions: Charteris-Black (2004) discusses the expression "blood is shed" (p. 25).

• Charteris-Black, J. (2004). Corpus approaches to critical metaphor analysis. Palgrave-Macmillan.