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