Metaphors in a variety of visual and visual-plus-text discourses
What is it about?
This book, co-edited by Charles Forceville and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi, is the first to provide discussions of multimodal metaphors in a range of different media and genres. It builds on the idea that metaphors are first of all a feature of THINKING, not of language, by showcasing a range of papers analysing metaphors that are not, or not purely, verbal in nature. Genres addressed are advertising, political cartoons, co-speech gesturing, comics, music, logos, and winespeak.
Why is it important?
In Metaphors We Live By (1980) Lakoff and Johnson pioneered the idea that metaphors are a pivotal instrument of cognition, but most of their followers have focused exclusively on verbal manifestations of so-called "conceptual metaphors." This volume shows how metaphors can occur in visuals and other non-verbal modes -- as well as in combinations of these modes. Thereby the volume contributes to conceptual metaphor theory as well as to visual and multimodal studies.