Metaphoricity of Conventionalized Diegetic Images in Comics - A Study in Multimodal Cognitive Linguistics

This book offers a cognitive-semiotic approach to metaphoricity of visual representations in static visual narratives referred to as comics. It implements this approach in an exploration of conventionalized visual signs depicting diegetic situations, motion events, sound events, and diverse psychological experiences in such narratives. With his focus on the intersection of comics studies, conceptual metaphor theory, and Charles Sanders Peirce's theory of signs, the author analyzes a broad array of attested data retrieved from comics exemplifying various publication formats, generic conventions, and cultural traditions. His exploration situates the metaphoricity of the analyzed visual signs against the backdrop of their overall semiotic makeup and in relation to the metaphoricity of their linguistic counterparts.

List of contents

Multimodality - Cognitive linguistics - Visual signs - Conceptual metaphor theory - C. S. Peirce - Semiotics - Comics studies - Index - Icon - Symbol - Image - Diagram - Metaphor - Signification - Sound event - Motion event - Psychological experience - Emotion - Construal - Objectification - Cumulative representation

About the author

Michä Szawerna is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wroc¿aw. His research interests include visual signification, cognitive linguistics, and Peirce¿s sign theory.

Product details

• Authors: Micha¿ Szawerna, Michal Szawerna
• Assisted by: Lukasz Bogucki (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9783631675212
• ISBN: 978-3-631-67521-2
• No. of pages: 487
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 36 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 730 g
• Illustrations: 66 Abb.
• Series: Lodz Studies in Language; Lódz Studies in Language; Lodz Studies in Language
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures