Metaphoricity of Conventionalized Diegetic Images in Comics: A Study in Multimodal Cognitive Linguistics

ISBN-13: 9783631675212 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 487 str.

Michal Szawerna

Opis

This book offers a cognitive-semiotic approach to metaphoricity of visual representations in comics. It implements an exploration of conventionalized visual signs depicting diegetic situations, motion events, sound events, and diverse psychological experiences in static visual narratives of this kind.

Spis treści

Multimodality - Cognitive linguistics - Visual signs - Conceptual metaphor theory - C. S. Peirce - Semiotics - Comics studies - Index - Icon - Symbol - Image - Diagram - Metaphor - Signification - Sound event - Motion event - Psychological experience - Emotion - Construal - Objectification - Cumulative representation

O autorze

Michal S zawerna is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wroclaw. His research interests include visual signification, cognitive linguistics, and Peirce's sign theory.