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  1. Book review of: Figuring out Figuration

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, December 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  2. Understanding pictures from different cultures requires cultural background knowledge

    Article • October 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Charles Forceville

  3. How Tripadvisor automatically helps assess contributors' trustworthiness

    Article • September 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  4. Metaphor and metonymy in Iranian and Dutch print advertising

    Article • September 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  5. Book review of Frank Serafini (2022), Beyond the Visual

    Article • Visual Communication, June 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  6. Book review of Yus (2022), Smartphone Communication

    Article • Visual Communication, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  7. Review of monograph by Nea Ehrlich (Edinburgh UP 2021)

    Article • Leonardo, January 2022, The MIT Press

    Dr Charles Forceville

  8. Gender, ethnicity, love of art, and other aspects of identity in children's picture books

    Article • November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  9. How easy or difficult is it to understand emotion lines in comics?

    Article • Semiotica, October 2021, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  10. How animations can be (part of) documentary films.

    Article • Visual Communication, July 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  11. Multimodality: communication combining two or more semiotic resources

    Article • May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  12. Book review of: Danny Butt, Artistic Research in the Future Academy. Bristol: Intellect, 2017

    Article • Visual Communication, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  13. How is the Chinese-American trade war portrayed in political cartoons in both nations?

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  14. Review of Coëgnarts (2019). Film as Embodied Art; and Gallese & Guerra (2019). The Empathic Screen

    Article • Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, October 2020, Academic Studies Press

    Dr Charles Forceville

  15. "Relevance" is the key to explaining visual and visual-plus-written-language mass communication

    Article • August 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Charles Forceville

  16. So much knowledge is needed to understand the visuals in an Iranian or a Dutch advertisement!

    Article • Cognitive Linguistic Studies, August 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville, Zahra Kashanizadeh

  17. What meaning-making mechanisms do we recruit to make sense of Chinese promotion clips?

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, April 2020, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville, Yue Guan

  18. Book review of Bateman, Wildfeuer, and Hiippala (2017)

    Article • Visual Communication, October 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  19. Book review of: Elisabeth El Refaie, Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  20. The latest in research on multimodal metaphor & other tropes

    Article • September 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  21. This is a book review of Musolff (2016)

    Article • Cognitive Linguistic Studies, July 2019, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  22. This is a book review of Abdel-Raheem (2019)

    Article • Journal of language and Education, March 2019, National Research University, Higher School of Economics (HSE)

    Dr Charles Forceville

  23. Visual metaphors in Dutch political cartoons that characterize right-wing politician Geert Wilders

    Article • March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  24. Book review of Pérez-Sobrino (2017), Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  25. A critical evaluation of Mueller & Kappelhoff's model for analysing cinematic metaphor

    Article • Punctum International Journal of Semiotics, December 2018, Hellenic Semiotic Society

    Dr Charles Forceville

  26. How is "depression" audiovisually represented in short animation films?

    Article • Visual Communication, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  27. Judging emotions from facial expressions of comics characters.

    Article • Visual Communication, July 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  28. How is it that unusual and creative traffic signs can be interpreted?

    Article • International Review of Pragmatics, January 2018, Brill

    Dr Charles Forceville

  29. Arguing with visuals

    Article • December 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  30. Antithesis as a persuasive device in Fred Wiseman's documentaries

    Article • December 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  31. Argumentation and rhetoric in visual and multimodal communication

    Article • December 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  32. Do "interactive documentaries" actually deserve to be called "documentaries"?

    Article • Discourse Context & Media, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  33. From metaphor to allegory: Afu-ganisu-tan (an online manga)

    Article • Metaphor and the Social World, November 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  34. Visual metaphors in computer ads in a 1999 issue of PC Magazine (paper was published in 2000)

    Article • HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business, February 2017, Aarhus University Library

    Dr Charles Forceville

  35. Arguing with visuals (sometimes accompanied by minimal text)

    Article • Multimodal Communication, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  36. This is a book review of Francisco Yus, Humour and Relevance (Benjamins 2016)

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  37. Can we have mixed metaphors in visuals?

    Article • March 2016, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  38. Visual and multimodal metaphor

    Article • January 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  39. What various theories rooted in linguistics can contribute to the study of comics

    Article • January 2016, Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr Charles Forceville

  40. Book review of Annabelle Honess Roe, Animated Documentary (Palgrave MacMillan 2013).

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  41. Visual and Multimodal Metaphor in Film

    Article • October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  42. GOOD IS LIGHT and BAD IS DARK in feature films

    Article • Metaphor and the Social World, December 2013, John Benjamins

    Thijs Renckens , Dr Charles Forceville

  43. "Finding your identity is like finding your home" in short animation films

    Article • Review of Cognitive Linguistics, November 2013, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  44. Solving videogames puzzles is making a journey: Half-Life 2, Grim Fandango, and Heavy Rain

    Article • Metaphor and the Social World, July 2013, John Benjamins

    Master Roelf Johannes Kromhout, Dr Charles Forceville

  45. How the concept of the journey structures Varda's "The Gleaners and I"

    Article • March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  46. A critical book review of Kress' Multimodality (2010)

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  47. This is a book review.

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, September 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  48. Three short animation films that visualize the LIFE IS A JOURNEY metaphor

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, July 2011, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  49. Metaphors depicting the global financial crisis in newspaper cartoons

    Article • Visual Communication, May 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  50. Loss of hands in Azumanga (part 4) metaphorically means loss of control

    Article • Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics, May 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  51. Motion and emotion lines in Hergé's last Tintin album

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, February 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  52. The impact of perceived complexity, deviation and comprehension on the appreciation of visual metaphor in advertising across three European countries

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, December 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  53. Book review of: Carey Jewitt (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis (2009)

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, September 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  54. The metaphorical potential of sound and music

    Article • September 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  55. "Introduction" in Forceville & Urios-Aparis (eds), Multimodal Metaphor (De Gruyter 2009)

    Article • September 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  56. Reprint, with small variations, of Forceville (2006)

    Article • September 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  57. New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, July 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  58. Metaphors in a variety of visual and visual-plus-text discourses

    Article • January 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  59. Theorizing visual and visual-plus-verbal metaphor

    Article • September 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Charles Forceville

  60. Multimodal Transcription and Text Analysis: A Multimedia Toolkit and Coursebook

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, June 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  61. Further thoughts on delimiting pictorial metaphor

    Article • Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, January 2007, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika/Nicolaus Copernicus University

    Dr Charles Forceville

  62. Creative metaphors drawing on visuals, language and sound in Dutch commercials

    Article • Public Journal of Semiotics, January 2007, Public Journal of Semiotics, Lund University

    Dr Charles Forceville

  63. Achieving a goal is undertaking a journey: the documentary road-movie

    Article • New Review of Film and Television Studies, December 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  64. Book Review: Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis

    Article • Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics, November 2006, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  65. Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist framework: Agendas for research

    Article • October 2006, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  66. Article • Journal of Pragmatics, September 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  67. Genre plus time & place of access steer the interpretation of visual/multimodal discourse

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2005, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  68. How is anger visualized in the Asterix album La Zizanie/The Roman Agent?

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  69. Fauconnier & Turner (2002), The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities

    Article • Metaphor and Symbol, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  70. This is a book review of Engelhardt (2002)

    Article • Document Design, October 2003, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  71. Book review of Zoltán Kövecses, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction (Oxford UP 2002).

    Article • Journal of English Linguistics, June 2003, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  72. Free indirect discourse in The Comfort of Strangers (novella AND film).

    Article • Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics, May 2002, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  73. English for sale: A study of the language of advertising (Lund Studies in English, 99)

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, March 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  74. Pictorial/visual metaphor in print and billboard advertising (monograph)

    Article • January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  75. Can target and source in a visual or multimodal metaphor be reversed? No, they can't!

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  76. How a conceptual metaphor is cued in a novella, a script, and a film: COLIN IS A CHILD.

    Article • Metaphor and Symbol, July 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  77. Review article of Kress and Van Leeuwen's "Reading Images" (Routledge 1996)

    Article • Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics, June 1999, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  78. Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising

    Article • January 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  79. Context always makes clear that metaphorical mappings go from source to target -- not vice versa

    Article • Poetics Today, January 1995, JSTOR

    Dr Charles Forceville

  80. Reviews

    Article • Word & Image, January 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  81. Pictorial Metaphor in Advertisements

    Article • Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, March 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  82. The layering motif in Alice Munro's short stories

    Article • January 1993, Brill

    Dr Charles Forceville

  83. What visual stylistic means do comics and graphic novels have to convey meaning? (2014)

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  84. The metaphorical use of "forces" in animation film (in: Hampe, ed., 2017).

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Charles Forceville

  85. Relevance theory as inclusive model of communication (2014)

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  86. How can text balloons in comics and graphic novels be creative?

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  87. 2. E Unis Pluribum: Using Mental Agility to Achieve Creative Duality in Word, Image and Sound

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville