Understanding Abstract Concepts across Modes in Multimodal Discourse: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach - Brossura

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Górska, Elzbieta

 
9780367787745: Understanding Abstract Concepts across Modes in Multimodal Discourse: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach
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ISBN 10: 0367787741 ISBN 13: 9780367787745
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2021

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This volume looks at spatialization of abstract concepts in verbo-pictorial aphorisms at work in the cartoons of a single artist. While extensive work has been done in studying spatialization of abstract concepts in grammar and lexicon within cognitive linguistics, this book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed account of such phenomena in multimodal discourse. The volume integrates a range of approaches from cognitive linguistics, including image schema theory, conceptual theory of metaphor, multimodal metaphor theory, the dynamic approach to metaphor, and a multimodal approach to metonymy, and applies this multi-faceted framework to a selection of cartoons from the work of Polish artist Janusz Kapusta. Taken together, these cartoons form the basis of two comprehensive case studies which explore the abstract concepts of "emotions" and "life," highlighting the ways in which cartoons can illustrate the important relationship between space, situated cognition, and language and in turn, a clear and systematic framework for establishing cohesive ties between the verbal and pictorial modes in multimodal cognitive linguistic research. The volume sheds new light on visual thinking and multimodal rendition of creative abstract thought.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Elżbieta 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.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0367787741
ISBN 13 
9780367787745
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
116
Contatto del produttore
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com

Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24
München
80331
Germania

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9780367244828: Understanding Abstract Concepts across Modes in Multimodal Discourse: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0367244829 ISBN 13:  9780367244828
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2019
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