Visual and Multimodal Metaphor in Advertising: Cultural Perspectives

It is often claimed that a picture tells us more than a thousand words, but studying pictorial metaphors reveals how much background knowledge is needed to understand and evaluate visuals. Commercial print advertising and billboards make for good case studies, because their goal is unambiguous: to s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Charles Forceville
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bucharest Publishing House 2017-06-01
Series:Styles of Communication
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