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Visual metaphor : structure and process
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ISBN: 9789027201515 9789027263476 902720151X 9027263477 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,

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Metaphor has recently been reconceptualised as a fundamental part of the human conceptual system. It can hence be expressed in language but also in other modalities and media of communication, including gesture and body language, sound and music, and film and visuals. In spite of this theoretical landslide, however, the wide range of nonverbal metaphor and its processing has neither been empirically investigated on the same scale nor with the same rigour as metaphor in language. The overarching goal of this book is to report on the findings of a research program aimed at exploiting the vast cognitive linguistic and psycholinguistic expertise on metaphor in language for a new, behaviourally founded approach to the structure and processes of metaphor in one of these nonverbal manifestations, namely static visuals. The book presents concepts and methods for the identification and analysis of metaphor in document structure as well as new approaches to the study of visual metaphor processing. Its results are intended to further the development of an encompassing and robust cognitive-scientific theory of metaphor by including visual metaphor while also enriching our understanding of the communicative possibilities and effects of visual metaphor in multimodal discourse.


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The iconology of abstraction : non-figurative images and the modern world
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ISBN: 9780429262500 0429262507 9780429562044 0429562047 9780429557576 0429557574 9780429553103 0429553102 9780367206048 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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This book uncovers how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times, and examines abstract images as a visual language. The contributors will demonstrate that abstraction is not primarily an artistic phenomenon, but rather arose from human beings' desire to imagine, understand, and communicate complex, ineffable concepts in fields ranging from fine art and philosophy to technologies of data visualisation, from cartography and medicine to astronomy. The book will be of interest to scholars working in image studies, visual studies, art history, philosophy, and aesthetics.

Pictorial metaphor in advertising
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ISBN: 0415186765 0415128684 0203064259 1134663153 1280330236 9780203064252 9786610330232 6610330239 9780415128681 9780415186766 9781134663101 9781134663149 9781134663156 1134663145 9781280330230 Year: 1998 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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