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,… (more)
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften (June 30, 2017)
Collection: Lodz Studies in Language
Format: EPUB
Page count: 487 pages
Protection: DRM
Language: English