All Stories

  1. Book review of Van Houtum (2024): Free the Map: From Atlas to Hermes
  2. Facing cancer: metaphors used in medical animations films to explaining aspects of cancer
  3. Guidelines for identifying and interpreting visual metaphors in political cartoons
  4. Book review: Dixon &Bortolussi (2024). The Analogical Reader
  5. A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous
  6. How to identify and interpret metaphors in film: a critical evaluation of FILMIP
  7. This is a BOOK REVIEW of: S.W. Franklin (2023). The Cult of Creativity (U. of Chicago Press)
  8. Narrating and attributing perspective visually in comics
  9. This is a book review of Aaris Sherin (2023).
  10. Book review of: Figuring out Figuration
  11. Understanding pictures from different cultures requires cultural background knowledge
  12. How Tripadvisor automatically helps assess contributors' trustworthiness
  13. Metaphor and metonymy in Iranian and Dutch print advertising
  14. Book review of Frank Serafini (2022), Beyond the Visual
  15. Book review of Yus (2022), Smartphone Communication
  16. Review of monograph by Nea Ehrlich (Edinburgh UP 2021)
  17. Key Terms in Comics Studies
  18. Gender, ethnicity, love of art, and other aspects of identity in children's picture books
  19. How easy or difficult is it to understand emotion lines in comics?
  20. How animations can be (part of) documentary films.
  21. Multimodality: communication combining two or more semiotic resources
  22. Book review of: Danny Butt, Artistic Research in the Future Academy. Bristol: Intellect, 2017
  23. How is the Chinese-American trade war portrayed in political cartoons in both nations?
  24. Review of Coëgnarts (2019). Film as Embodied Art; and Gallese & Guerra (2019). The Empathic Screen
  25. "Relevance" is the key to explaining visual and visual-plus-written-language mass communication
  26. So much knowledge is needed to understand the visuals in an Iranian or a Dutch advertisement!
  27. Making cross-cultural meaning in five Chinese promotion clips: Metonymies and metaphors
  28. Book review of Bateman, Wildfeuer, and Hiippala (2017)
  29. Book review of: Elisabeth El Refaie, Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives
  30. The latest in research on multimodal metaphor & other tropes
  31. This is a book review of Musolff (2016)
  32. This is a book review of Abdel-Raheem (2019)
  33. Visual metaphors in Dutch political cartoons that characterize right-wing politician Geert Wilders
  34. Book review of Pérez-Sobrino (2017), Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising
  35. A critical evaluation of Mueller & Kappelhoff's model for analysing cinematic metaphor
  36. How is "depression" audiovisually represented in short animation films?
  37. Judging emotions from facial expressions of comics characters.
  38. How is it that unusual and creative traffic signs can be interpreted?
  39. Michał Szawerna 2017: Metaphoricity of Conventionalized Diegetic Images in Comics: A Study in Multimodal Cognitive Linguistics
  40. Arguing with visuals
  41. Antithesis as a persuasive device in Fred Wiseman's documentaries
  42. Argumentation and rhetoric in visual and multimodal communication
  43. Do "interactive documentaries" actually deserve to be called "documentaries"?
  44. From metaphor to allegory: Afu-ganisu-tan (an online manga)
  45. Visual metaphors in computer ads in a 1999 issue of PC Magazine (paper was published in 2000)
  46. Arguing with visuals (sometimes accompanied by minimal text)
  47. This is a book review of Francisco Yus, Humour and Relevance (Benjamins 2016)
  48. Handbuch Sprache im multimodalen Kontext
  49. Can we have mixed metaphors in visuals?
  50. Visual and multimodal metaphor
  51. What various theories rooted in linguistics can contribute to the study of comics
  52. Book review of Annabelle Honess Roe, Animated Documentary (Palgrave MacMillan 2013).
  53. Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics
  54. Visual and Multimodal Metaphor in Film
  55. Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games
  56. Flight from Wonder: An Investigation of Scientific Creativityby Albert Rothenberg
  57. Interpreting The Chinese Wall knowing Dutch and ‘Dutchness’
  58. CAN PICTURES HAVE EXPLICATURES?
  59. GOOD IS LIGHT and BAD IS DARK in feature films
  60. "Finding your identity is like finding your home" in short animation films
  61. Solving videogames puzzles is making a journey: Half-Life 2, Grim Fandango, and Heavy Rain
  62. Imagery in the 21st Century
  63. Can Blending Theory contribute important insights to creativity?
  64. How the concept of the journey structures Varda's "The Gleaners and I"
  65. A critical book review of Kress' Multimodality (2010)
  66. This is a book review.
  67. Three short animation films that visualize the LIFE IS A JOURNEY metaphor
  68. Metaphors depicting the global financial crisis in newspaper cartoons
  69. Loss of hands in Azumanga (part 4) metaphorically means loss of control
  70. Motion and emotion lines in Hergé's last Tintin album
  71. Do visual metaphor types in car ads and the cultural background of viewers affect interpretation?
  72. Book review of: Carey Jewitt (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis (2009)
  73. Book Review: On Criticism by Noël Carroll, 2009. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 210 ISBN 978 0 415 39621 9 (pbk)
  74. The metaphorical potential of sound and music
  75. "Introduction" in Forceville & Urios-Aparis (eds), Multimodal Metaphor (De Gruyter 2009)
  76. Reprint, with small variations, of Forceville (2006)
  77. Extreme horror films' presentation of human victims as if they were animals
  78. This is a book review.
  79. Metaphors in a variety of visual and visual-plus-text discourses
  80. The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding by Mark Johnson
  81. Theorizing visual and visual-plus-verbal metaphor
  82. Re-viewing Space: Figurative Language in Architects' Assessment of Built Space. Rosario Caballero, Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2006, 261 pages, $118, ISBN-13: 978-3-11-018520-1.
  83. Multimodal Transcription and Text Analysis: A Multimedia Toolkit and Coursebook
  84. Further thoughts on delimiting pictorial metaphor
  85. Creative metaphors drawing on visuals, language and sound in Dutch commercials
  86. Achieving a goal is undertaking a journey: the documentary road-movie
  87. Book Review: Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis
  88. Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist framework: Agendas for research
  89. Genre plus time & place of access steer the interpretation of visual/multimodal discourse
  90. How is anger visualized in the Asterix album La Zizanie/The Roman Agent?
  91. Fauconnier & Turner (2002), The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities
  92. This is a book review of Engelhardt (2002)
  93. Book review of Zoltán Kövecses, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction (Oxford UP 2002).
  94. Free indirect discourse in The Comfort of Strangers (novella AND film).
  95. English for sale: A study of the language of advertising (Lund Studies in English, 99)
  96. Pictorial/visual metaphor in print and billboard advertising (monograph)
  97. Can target and source in a visual or multimodal metaphor be reversed? No, they can't!
  98. How a conceptual metaphor is cued in a novella, a script, and a film: COLIN IS A CHILD.
  99. Review article of Kress and Van Leeuwen's "Reading Images" (Routledge 1996)
  100. Visual metaphor in print and billboard advertisements
  101. Context always makes clear that metaphorical mappings go from source to target -- not vice versa
  102. Reviews
  103. Pictorial Metaphor in Advertisements
  104. The layering motif in Alice Munro's short stories
  105. What visual stylistic means do comics and graphic novels have to convey meaning? (2014)
  106. The metaphorical use of "forces" in animation film (in: Hampe, ed., 2017).
  107. Relevance theory as inclusive model of communication (2014)
  108. How can text balloons in comics and graphic novels be creative?
  109. 2. E Unis Pluribum: Using Mental Agility to Achieve Creative Duality in Word, Image and Sound