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Over the past few decades, research on metaphor has focused almost exclusively on its verbal and cognitive dimensions. In this book, the author argues that metaphor can also occur in pictures and draws on relevant studies from various disciplines to propose a model for the identification, classification, and analysis of ""pictorial metaphors"". By using insights taken from a range of linguistic, artistic and cognitive perspectives, for example interaction and relevance theory, Forceville shows not only how metaphor can occur in pictures, but also provides a framework within which these pictorial metaphors can be analyzed. The theoretical insights are applied to 30 advertisements and billboards of British, French, German and Dutch origin. Apart from substantiating the claim that it makes sense to talk about ""pictorial metaphors"", the detailed analyses of the advertisements suggest how metaphor theory can be employed as a tool in media studies. Context in its various manifestations plays a key role in the analyses.

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'Forceville's Pictoral Metaphor in Advertising provides stimulating insights into the ways that metaphors are manipulated pictorally as a means of selling products ... It is precisely this kind of study, in which metaphor is viewed as a phenomenon in everyday life, that is most exciting.' - Journal of Sociolinguistics 'Forceville's book on metaphor in pictures is by far the most comprehensive examination of the topic.' - The Semiotic Review of Books

'Forceville's Pictoral Metaphor in Advertising provides stimulating insights into the ways that metaphors are manipulated pictorally as a means of selling products ... It is precisely this kind of study, in which metaphor is viewed as a phenomenon in everyday life, that is most exciting.' - Journal of Sociolinguistics 'Forceville's book on metaphor in pictures is by far the most comprehensive examination of the topic.' - The Semiotic Review of Books

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Charles Forceville is Lecturer in the Department of English, also affiliated to the Department of Comparative and Empirical Literature at the Free University in Amsterdam.

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