LINGUIST List 33.1711
Thu May 12 2022
FYI: Multimodal Metaphors: Conceptual, Methodological and Empirical issues
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 11-May-2022
From: Sabine Heinemann <sabine.heinemann
uni-graz.at>
Subject: Multimodal Metaphors: Conceptual, Methodological and Empirical issues
E-mail this message to a friend In recent decades, research in cognitive semantics has almost exclusively focused on linguistic metaphors and their conceptual grounding. This scope has, however, changed today due to the emergence of and increase in the multimodality of communication. Consequently, scholars dealing with metaphor and metonymy from the angle of cognitive semantics have become more and more interested in studying other modalities in addition to prevalent linguistic ones. Relevant studies analysing pictorial, gestural or musical metaphors have emerged and gathered momentum, resulting in thought-provoking studies on modalities for example in comics or advertisements. Here, the interplay between image and text plays an important role as the source and the target domains are addressed via both modalities while video clips provide a combination of three channels. As it stands, interest in analysing multimodal metaphors is still growing and in need of further theoretical, methodological and empirical development.
Against this backdrop, the present call for papers for a special issue of our journal invites abstracts addressing the following aspects of multimodal metaphors:
- different types of multimodal metaphors and the interaction of perception channels in multimodal metaphors (e.g. complementary, contradictory, redundant);
- different functions of multimodal metaphors (e.g. illustrative, heuristic, persuasive);
- interplay of metaphors in multimodal types of text and forms of communication (e.g. comics, advertisement, music clips);
- relevance of different varieties and communicative situations (e.g. face-to-face, quasi-synchronous, asynchronous) in the interaction of multimodal metaphors;
- degrees of conventionality or creativity of multimodal metaphors;
- importance of the context for the interpretation of multimodal metaphors (e.g. current contextual knowledge for decoding political cartoons);
- cultural-specific characteristics of multimodal metaphors and
- theoretical and methodological developments important for improving current research on multimodal metaphors.
For further questions please contact: Judith.visser
rub.de, sabine.heinemann
uni-graz.at
Schedule:
We are looking forward to receiving your abstract by July 15th 2022.
Acceptance of the abstract will be announced by October 31st 2022.
Articles should be submitted by February 15th 2023 for peer review.
The special issue will be published in October 2023 with metaphorik.de
Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
Language Family(ies): Romance
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