Category Archives: Abstracts & Papers.

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Paula P. Sobrino — Multimodal complex cognitive operations at work in greenwashing advertisements

MULTIMODAL COMPLEX COGNITIVE OPERATIONS AT WORK IN GREENWASHING ADVERTISEMENTS: THE CASE OF METONYMIC COMPOSITE AND METAPHORIC AMALGAM This presentation surveys the interaction between multimodal metaphor and metonymy through the analysis of two greenwashing advertisements. With the exception of Forceville (1996, … Continue reading

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Creative metaphors, metonyms, blends? Music & sound in documentary film.

Charles Forceville, “Creative metaphors, metonyms, blends? Music & sound in documentary film.” In: RaAM theme panel “Metaphor and Metonymy in Creative Thought and Expression Across Genres” (Org. Susan Ryland & Helen Thomas, U. of Lancaster, UK, 4-7/7/12). RaAM 2012 Presentation creative audiovisuals in … Continue reading

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Forceville, Charles. Metaphor and symbol: FINDING ONE’S IDENTITY IS GOING HOME in animation film

The following is a pre-review draft of a book chapter, which will be revised on the basis of peer reviews. If you want to refer to it, please do so as follows: Forceville, Charles (in prep.). “Metaphor and symbol: FINDING … Continue reading

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“The visualization of anger in comics” (2012). Charles Forceville

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The visualization of anger in comics. February 10, 2012. “Ensuring readers’/viewers’ continued interest in a story requires that they are aware of the goals of one or more protagonists, and make an emotional investment in their success or failure; we … Continue reading

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ACHIEVING A GOAL IS MAKING A JOURNEY: the Source-Path-Goal schema in videogames.

Abstract. Roelf Kromhout (kromhout@gmail.com) A persistent issue in video game research is the debate between “ludologists” and “narratologists.” Frasca (2003) rightly argued that many of the disagreements and indeed the actual existence of the debate are a result of a … Continue reading

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Interplay of overt and hidden messages in Dutch television news

Research proposal Karen Van Stapele. By textually dissecting a body of Dutch television news programs, this research project seeks to lay bare various levels in which news messages are being conveyed simultaneously and successively; thus contextualizing one another and therefore … Continue reading

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Forceville, Charles (submitted). “Creative visual variation in comics balloons.”

“Creative visual variation in comics balloons.” In:  Tony Veale, Kurt Feyaerts, Charles Forceville (eds). Creativity and the Agile Mind: A Multi-disciplinary Exploration of a Multi-Faceted Phenomenon [book proposal submitted]. Abstract: Creativity appears to result from unexpectedly combining two or more … Continue reading

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Forceville, Charles, and Marloes Jeulink (2011). “The flesh and blood of embodied understanding: The source-path-goal schema in animation film.”

(2011). “’The flesh and blood of embodied understanding’: The source-path-goal schema in animation film.” Pragmatics & Cognition 19(1): 37-59. DOI 10.1075/pc19.1.02for Abstract: According to Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), the Source-Path-Goal (SPG) schema constitutes a central concept in cognition. Apart from … Continue reading

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Abbott, Michael, and Charles Forceville (2011). “Visual representations of emotion in manga: loss of control is loss of hands in Azumanga Daioh volume 4.”

(2011). “Visual representations of emotion in manga: loss of control is loss of hands in Azumanga Daioh volume 4.” Language and Literature 20(2): 91-112. DOI 10.1177/096394701 1402182 Abstract: Comics and manga have many ways to convey the expression of emotion, … Continue reading

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Forceville, Charles (2012). “Creativity in pictorial and multimodal advertising metaphors.”

“Creativity in pictorial and multimodal advertising metaphors.” In: Rodney Jones (ed.), Discourse and Creativity (113-132). London: Longman. Abstract: Finding their inspiration in Koestler’s work, Fauconnier and Turner have developed a theory, Blending Theory, which among other things can model ‘emergent … Continue reading

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