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

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

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Series: Routledge Focus on Linguistics

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0367244829
ISBN13: 9780367244828
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 12 2019
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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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