Social Media Cartooning: Visual and Multimodal Metaphors in Iraqi Newspapers Cartoons
آداب الكوفةThe current study explores the investigation of visual and multimodal metaphors by the use of metaphorical elements in cartoons that focus on social media networking. Thirty-two cartoons, by well-known cartoonists, are gathered from the Iraqi newspapers.
Hayder Tuma Jassim Alsaedi
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Language as a disruptive technology: Abstract concepts, embodiment and the flexible mind [PDF]
, 2018 A growing body of evidence suggests that cognition is embodied and grounded. Abstract concepts, though, remain a significant theoretical chal- lenge. A number of researchers have proposed that language makes an important contribution to our capacity to ...
Dove, Guy
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping the research landscape and carries significant implications for Digital Humanities (DH), a field long intertwined with computational methods and technologies. This study examines how DH scholars are adopting and critically evaluating GenAI in their research. Drawing on an
Rongqian Ma, Meredith Dedema, Andrew Cox
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From Monomodal to Multimodal Metaphors in the Portuguese sports newspaper A Bola
Revista Brasileira de Linguística AplicadaFollowing our comprehensive study of conceptual metaphor occurrences in the Portuguese sports newspaper A Bola (ALMEIDA, 2013) and the research on multimodal metaphor (Forceville, 2008, 2009, 2012), the present paper aims to analyse multimodal metaphors,
Maria Clotilde Almeida, Bibiana de Sousa
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A neuro‐behavioural model of neophobia
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fear can be defined as the internal neurological state that releases a repertoire of behaviours an animal performs to reduce the effect of an aversive factor. Neophobia, the fear of novelty, is a fundamental behavioural trait observed across a wide range of species from arthropods to humans.
Arik Dorfman, Aziz Subach, Inon Scharf
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Multimodal metaphor and metonymy in political cartoons as a means of country image construction
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2023 The interrelation of metaphors and metonymies often attracts the attention of linguists, but the combination of multimodal metaphors and metonymies, which are important components of cognition and are essential for the creation and understanding of ...
Shaoyang Guan, Yuhua Sun
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"Language at Work: Analysing Language Use in Work, Education, Medical and Museum Contexts", Edited by Helen de Silva Joyce Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2016, pp. 277 [PDF]
, 2017 The reviewed volume "Language at Work" explores the language used in a variety of workplace contexts ranging from call centres through secondary schools and hospitals to museums.
Castello, Erik
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Investigating literacy practices within the secondary English classroom, or where is the text in this class? [PDF]
, 2007 The Vygotskian concept of the zone of proximal development has been interpreted in such a way as to provide theoretical support for particular, government-sponsored, models of both pedagogy and literacy.
Yandell, John
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Virtual Reality Externalization (VR‐E) for Patients With Eating Disorders: A Pilot Study
International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Despite significant health and psychosocial impairments, many individuals with eating disorders (ED) view their disorder as an integral part of their identity. Because this “ego‐syntonicity” is associated with low treatment motivation and treatment dropouts, we investigated the acceptability, feasibility, and effects of a newly ...
Samuel P. E. Mehranfar +4 more
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And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us: On zombies, politcal protests and the transmodality of political metaphors [PDF]
Družboslovne Razprave, 2015 Built around a case study of the zombie metaphor used to denigrate protesters during the popular political uprisings in Slovenia during the winter of 2012–2013, this article introduces the notion of a transmodal metaphor to capture the many roles and ...
Ilija Tomanić Trivundža
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