1st Edition
Understanding Abstract Concepts across Modes in Multimodal Discourse A Cognitive Linguistic Approach
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
Biography
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.
