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Recent and forthcoming talks and publications
[Last updated: 14-2-24]
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ChF posts preprints of papers and chapters on Researchgate and Academia.edu.
Occasionally, news will still be posted here.
ChF still regularly updates the bibliography on this blog.
Gebraad, Nina, and ChF (forthc.). “Facing cancer: metaphors in medical animation films.” Visual Communication Journal.
ChF (forthc. planned for May 2024) “Identifying and interpreting visual and multimodal metaphor in political cartoons.” In: Manuela Romano (ed.), Metaphor in Social-Political Contexts: Current Crises (255-278). DOI: 10.1515/9783111001364-011 . Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
ChF (2024). “Identifying and interpreting visual and multimodal metaphor in commercials and feature films.” Metaphor and Symbol 39(1): 40-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2023.2271544 Open Access article (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). For a summary, see https://link.growkudos.com/1pligljl7gg
ChF (2024). Book review of Caspar Henderson (2023), A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. Leonardo Reviews (January 2024) https://leonardo.info/review/2024/01/a-book-of-noises-notes-on-the-auraculous
ChF (2024). Book review of: Samuel W. Franklin (2023). The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History. The University of Chicago Press. Leonardo 56(5).
ChF (2023). “Reflections on developing Multimodal Metaphor Theory into Multimodal Trope Theory.” metaphorik.de no. 4: 19-42. (Special issue on Multimodal Tropes in Contemporary Corpora, guest editors: Denis Jamet & Adeline Terry). https://www.metaphorik.de/de/journal/34/metaphorikde-342023.html
ChF (2023). “Narrating and focalizing visually and verbo-visually in comics and graphic novels.” Pragmatics & Cognition 30(2): 183-211.
ChF (2023). Book review of: Aaris Sherin (2023). Introduction to Graphic Design: A Guide to Thinking, Process and Style (2nd edition). Bloomsbury Visual Arts. Leonardo 56(4).
27-28/4/23 Keynote lecture “On Developing Multimodal Metaphor Theory into Multimodal Trope Theory: Providing Food for Thought” at Culture and Cognition in Language 3 (CCL3) conference, University of Rzeszów, Poland. https://www.ur.edu.pl/pl/kolegia/kolegium-nauk-humanistycznych/jednostki-naukowe/instytut-neofilologii/dzialalnosc-naukowa/konferencje-naukowe/ccl3/keynote-speakers
24-26/4/23 ChF gives six lectures on multimodality at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS), Lublin, Poland (org. Marek Hetmanski).ChF
ChF (2022). Review of María Sandra Peña-Cervel & Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza-Ibáñez, Figuring out Figuration: Figurative Thought and Language (Benjamins). Journal of Pragmatics. Published ahead of print 11/11/22: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216622002429?via%3Dihub ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2022.10.005
28/8-6/9/22 ChF partakes (lectures, panel discussion) in Summer school “Minds, Media, Technology.” Institute on Multimodality. ZiF Bielefeld, Germany (Contact: Vasiliki Kondyli). https://aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2022/08/20/how-online-rhetoric-shapes-and-spreads-messages/?lang=en
ChF (2022). “Visual and multimodal communication across cultures.” In: István Kecskés (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Pragmatics (527-551). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-intercultural-pragmatics/A606E1E6F07896ED95363B16375DF521
ChF, and Natalia Sánchez Querubín (2022). “Relevance theory perspectives on web-based communication.” In: Herbert L. Colston, Teenie Matlock & Gerard J. Steen eds, Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond (325-340). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (ISBN 9789027211415). https://benjamins.com/catalog/milcc.9
ChF (2022). Book review of Frank Serafini (2022). Beyond the Visual: An Introduction to Researching Multimodal Phenomena. New York: Teachers College Press Visual Communication. DOI: 10.1177/14703572221102531 Published ahead of print 9 June 2022 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14703572221102531
ChF (2022). “Druppels, krullen, kurkentrekkers en andere striptekens” (pp. 22-25) ; “Onverwachte verkeersborden” (pp. 43-48); en “Gecodeerde plaatjes” (pp. 90-94). In: Alla Peeters & Petra Sleeman (red.), Taalmysteries: Raadselachtige Feiten van Grote en Kleine Talen. Amsterdam: Lias. [Three popularizing essays.] ISBN: 9789088031267. https://www.bruna.nl/boeken/taalmysteries-9789088031267#details
ChF (2022). Book review of Francisco Yus (2022). Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem. London: Routledge. Visual Communication (3pp.). DOI: 10.1177/14703572221094041. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14703572221094041
ChF (2022). Short entries on “linguistics” (p. 180), “multimodal metaphor” (pp. 208-209), “multimodality” (pp. 209-210), and “pictorial runes” (pp. 240-241). In: Erin La Cour, Simon Grennan, and Rik Spanjers (eds), Key Terms in Comics Studies. London: Palgrave. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030749736 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-74974-3).
Calvo-Maturana, Coral, and ChF (2022). “Depicting the family and self in children’s picture books: a corpus-driven exploration.” In: Jesús Moya Guijarro and Eija Ventola (eds), Challenging Gender Stereotypes and the Traditional Family Unit in Children’s Picture Books: A Multimodal Analysis (239-267). London: Routledge.
Ojha, Amitash, ChF, and Bipin Indurkhya (2021). “An experimental study on the effect of emotion lines in comics.” Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies. Published online at https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2019-0079
ChF (2021). Book review of: Nea Ehrlich, Animating Truth: Documentary and Visual Culture in the 21st Century. Edinburgh University Press, 2021 (ISBN 978 1 4744 6336 2). Leonardo 2021/9. (https://www.leonardo.info/review/2021/09/animating-truth-documentary-and-visual-culture-in-the-21st-century)
ChF (2021). “Multimodality.” In: Xu Wen & John R. Taylor, eds, The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (676-687). London/New York: Routledge.
Plomp, Anniek, and ChF (2021). “Evaluating animentary’s potential as a rhetorical genre.” Special issue “rhetoric and multimodality” of Visual Communication 20(3): 353-373 . Ahead of print 13/7/21: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14703572211010198
ChF (2021). “Relevance: the key to visual & multimodal (and all other) communication.” SemiotiX: A Global Information Magazine (February 2021). https://semioticon.com/semiotix/2021/02/relevance-the-key-to-visual-multimodal-and-all-other-communication/
Zhang, Cun, & ChF (2020) “Metaphor and metonymy in Chinese and American political cartoons (2018-2019) about the Sino-US trade conflict.” Pragmatics & Cognition 27(2): 476-501.
ChF (2020). Visual and Multimodal Communication: Applying the Relevance Principle. Oxford University Press, see https://global.oup.com/academic/product/visual-and-multimodal-communication-9780190845230?cc=nl&lang=en&. DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190845230.001.0001
ChF (2020). “Watching film with one’s body.” Review essay of Maarten Coëgnarts, Film as Embodied Cognition: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick (Academic Studies Press 2019) and Vittorio Gallese & Michele Guerra, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (Oxford University Press 2019). Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture 4(2): 111-120.
Kashanizadeh, Zahra, and ChF (2020). “Visual and multimodal interaction of metaphor and metonymy: A study of Iranian and Dutch print advertisements.” Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7(1): 78-110.
Guan, Yue, and ChF (2020). “Making cross-cultural meaning in five Chinese promotional clips: metonymies and metaphors.” https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2020-0007. Intercultural Pragmatics 17(2): 123–149.
ChF (2019). “Developments in multimodal metaphor studies: A response to Górska, Coëgnarts, Porto & Romano, and Muelas-Gil.” In: Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando (ed.), Current Approaches to Metaphor Analysis in Discourse (367-378). Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] vol. 39. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110629460-017
ChF (2019). “Reflections on the creative use of traffic signs’ ‘micro-language.’” In: András Benedek and Kristóf Nyíri (eds.), Image and Metaphor in the New Century (Perspectives on Visual Learning vol. 3) (103-113). Budapest University of Technology and Economics: Hungarian Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978-963-313-307-1
ChF & Natasa van de Laar (2019). “Metaphors portrayig right-wing politician Geert Wilders in Dutch political cartoons.” In: Encarnacion Hidalgo-Tenorio, Miguel-Angel Benitez-Castro, and Francesca De Cesare (eds), Populist Discourse: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Politics (292-307). London: Routledge.
ChF (2019). Book review of: Elisabeth El Refaie, Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives (Oxford University Press, New York, 2019, ISBN 9780190678173). Available ahead of print since 3 October 2019 at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216619306125
ChF (2019). Book review of John A. Bateman, Janina Wildfeuer, and Tuomo Hiippala, Multimodality: Foundations, Research and Analysis. A Problem-Oriented Introduction (De Gruyter Mouton 2017). Journal of Visual Communication 19(1) (2020). Published ahead of print on 24 October 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357219883512
ChF (2019). Review of Ahmed Abdel-Raheem (2019), Pictorial Framing in Moral Politics: A Corpus-Based Experimental Study (London: Routledge). In: Journal of Language and Education 5: 1 110-113 (Russia).
ChF (2019). Review of Paula Pérez-Sobrino, Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2017). Journal of Pragmatics 139: 126-128.
ChF, and Sissy Paling (2018). “The metaphorical representation of DEPRESSION in short, wordless animation films.” Journal of Visual Communication (available online since 21-9-2018 to everybody at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1470357218797994 — via open access).
Stamenković, Dušan, Miloš Tasić, and ChF (2018). “Facial expressions in comics: An empirical consideration of McCloud’s proposal.” Journal of Visual Communication 17(4): 407–432. (available online since 9 July 2018). https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357218784075
ChF and Jens E. Kjeldsen (2018). “The affordances and constraints of situation and genre: visual and multimodal rhetoric in unusual traffic signs.” Pragmatic insights for multimodal argumentation issue of International Review of Pragmatics 10(2): 158-178. doi: 10.1163/18773109-01002002
“The art of storytelling (part IV): actions & events” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG0i_JjPLEs). Short (2’45”) animation film, made by Felicia Kiessling, Tyka Beumers, Yens Phosri, et al. (Students at the HKU), concept & VO-text by ChF, Sept. 2018. For next year, the final part, on narration and focalisation has been planned.
Tseronis, Assimakis, and ChF, eds (2017). Multimodal Argumentation and Rhetoric in Media Genres. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Tseronis, Assimakis, and ChF (2017). “Introduction: Argumentation and rhetoric in visual and multimodal communication.” In: Tseronis and Forceville (eds), 1-24.
Tseronis, Assimakis, and ChF (2017). “The argumentative relevance of visual and multimodal antithesis in Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries.” In: Tseronis and Forceville (eds), 165-188.
Tseronis, Assimakis, and ChF (2017). “Arguing against corporate claims visually and multimodally: The case of subvertisements.” Multimodal Communication 6(2). DOI: 10.1515/mc-2017-0008.
ChF (2017). “From image schema to metaphor in discourse: The FORCE schemas in animation films.” In: Beate Hampe (ed.), Metaphor: From Embodied Cognition to Discourse (239-256). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Doi: 10.1017/1108182324.
Cornevin, Vanessa, and ChF (2017). “From metaphor to allegory: the Japanese manga Afuganisu-tan.” Metaphor and the Social World 7(2): 235-251. DOI: 10.1075/msw.7.2.04cor
ChF (2017). “Interactive documentary and its limited opportunities to persuade.” Discourse, Context & Media 20: 218-226 (guest editors of special issue “Media Evolution and Genre Expectations”: Tuomo Hiippala & Chiao-I Tseng). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.06.004
ChF (2017). “Visual and multimodal metaphor in advertising: cultural perspectives.” Styles of Communication 9(2): 26-41. (http://stylesofcomm.fjsc.unibuc.ro/)
Adventures in Multimodality (AIM) 