El Górska &

Understanding Abstract Concepts across Modes in Multimodal Discourse

A Cognitive Linguistic Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780367244828
• ISBN-10: 0367244829
• Artikelnr.: 57674034

Autorenporträt

El¿bieta 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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