Understanding Abstract Concepts across Modes in Multimodal Discourse: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach

ISBN-13: 9780367787745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 102 str.

Elżbieta G?rska

Opis

This volume looks at spatialization of abstract concepts in verbo-pictorial aphorisms at work in the cartoons of a single artist, the first of its kind to provide a detailed account of such phenomena in multimodal discourse.

Spis treści

Table of Contents

Typographical conventions

List of Examples, Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Developments in Image Schema Theory

1.1.1 The Notion of Image Schemas

1.1.2 Socio-Cultural Situatedness of Image Schemas

1.2 Understanding of Abstract Concepts in a Multimodal Perspective

1.3 The Data and the Framework

1.4 The Verbal and Pictorial Cueing of Image Schemas in Cartoons—Preliminaries

Chapter 2 A Multimodal Case Study of EMOTION Concepts

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Data Analysis

2.3. Conclusions

Chapter 3 A Multimodal Case Study of LIFE

3.1 The PATH Schema and the JOURNEY OF LIFE

3.2 LIFE AS A GAME and A SHOW

3.3 LIE and the Domains of PAINTING and SOUND

3.4. Conclusions

Chapter 4 Conclusion

References

Index

O autorze

Elżbieta Górska is Professor in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She has published a monograph On Parts and Wholes. A Cognitive Study of English Schematic Part Terms, and articles on cognitive lexical semantics, word formation, verbo-musical metaphors, text-image relations, and multimodal discourse.