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  1. Metaphor in film: Examples and insights from students' work

    Article • Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature, December 2025, Wydawnictwo Uniwersyteu Marii Curi-Sklodowskiej w Lublinie

    Dr Charles Forceville

  2. How we understand wordless stories: The JOURNEY metaphor in Mathieu’s graphic novel → ( Sens )

    Article • Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics, October 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  3. Relevance theory (Sperber & Wilson) is the best communication theory around

    Article • Multimodal Communication, September 2025, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  4. Metaphors in Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) animations

    Article • Metaphor and the Social World, June 2025, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  5. This is a book review of Herzing (2024)

    Article • Leonardo, January 2025, The MIT Press

    Dr Charles Forceville

  6. Comics and graphic novels: Stylistic aspects

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  7. Book review of Van Houtum (2024): Free the Map: From Atlas to Hermes

    Article • Visual Communication, October 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  8. Facing cancer: metaphors used in medical animations films to explaining aspects of cancer

    Article • Visual Communication, May 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  9. Guidelines for identifying and interpreting visual metaphors in political cartoons

    Article • April 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  10. Book review: Dixon &Bortolussi (2024). The Analogical Reader

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, April 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  11. A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous

    Article • Leonardo, January 2024, The MIT Press

    Dr Charles Forceville

  12. How to identify and interpret metaphors in film: a critical evaluation of FILMIP

    Article • Metaphor and Symbol, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  13. This is a BOOK REVIEW of: S.W. Franklin (2023). The Cult of Creativity (U. of Chicago Press)

    Article • Leonardo, November 2023, The MIT Press

    Dr Charles Forceville

  14. Narrating and attributing perspective visually in comics

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, November 2023, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  15. This is a book review of Aaris Sherin (2023).

    Article • Leonardo, September 2023, The MIT Press

    Dr Charles Forceville

  16. Book review of: Figuring out Figuration

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, December 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  17. Understanding pictures from different cultures requires cultural background knowledge

    Article • October 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Charles Forceville

  18. How Tripadvisor automatically helps assess contributors' trustworthiness

    Article • September 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  19. Metaphor and metonymy in Iranian and Dutch print advertising

    Article • September 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Visual Communication, June 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Visual Communication, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Leonardo, January 2022, The MIT Press

    Dr Charles Forceville

  23. Key Terms in Comics Studies

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville, Coral Calvo-Maturana

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

    Article • Semiotica, October 2021, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Visual Communication, July 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  27. Multimodality: communication combining two or more semiotic resources

    Article • May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Visual Communication, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville, cun zhang

  30. 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

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

    Article • August 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Charles Forceville

  32. 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

  33. Making cross-cultural meaning in five Chinese promotion clips: Metonymies and metaphors

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, April 2020, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville, Prof. Yue Guan

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

    Article • Visual Communication, October 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • September 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Cognitive Linguistic Studies, July 2019, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  38. 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

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

    Article • March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  41. 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

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

    Article • Visual Communication, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  43. Judging emotions from facial expressions of comics characters.

    Article • Visual Communication, July 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • International Review of Pragmatics, January 2018, Brill

    Dr Charles Forceville

  45. Michał Szawerna 2017: Metaphoricity of Conventionalized Diegetic Images in Comics: A Study in Multimodal Cognitive Linguistics

    Article • Language Mind Culture and Society, January 2018, Polish Cognitive Linguistic Association

    Dr Charles Forceville

  46. Arguing with visuals

    Article • December 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • December 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  48. Argumentation and rhetoric in visual and multimodal communication

    Article • December 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Discourse Context & Media, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

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

    Dr Charles Forceville

  51. 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

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

    Article • Multimodal Communication, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  54. Handbuch Sprache im multimodalen Kontext

    Article • September 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  55. Can we have mixed metaphors in visuals?

    Article • March 2016, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  56. Visual and multimodal metaphor

    Article • January 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • January 2016, Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  59. Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics

    Article • October 2015, John Benjamins

    Maria Jesus Pinar, Dr Charles Forceville

  60. Visual and Multimodal Metaphor in Film

    Article • October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  61. Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games

    Article • October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  62. Metaphor and symbol

    Article • October 2015, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  63. Flight from Wonder: An Investigation of Scientific Creativityby Albert Rothenberg

    Article • Metaphor and Symbol, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  64. Interpreting The Chinese Wall knowing Dutch and ‘Dutchness’

    Article • Short Film Studies, April 2015, Intellect

    Dr Charles Forceville

  65. CAN PICTURES HAVE EXPLICATURES?

    Article • Linguagem em (Dis)curso, December 2014, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Billy Clark, Dr Charles Forceville

  66. 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

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

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

    Dr Charles Forceville

  68. 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

  69. Imagery in the 21st Century

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, July 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  70. Can Blending Theory contribute important insights to creativity?

    Article • May 2013, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  73. This is a book review.

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, September 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, July 2011, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

  75. Metaphors depicting the global financial crisis in newspaper cartoons

    Article • Visual Communication, May 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  76. 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

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

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, February 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  78. Do visual metaphor types in car ads and the cultural background of viewers affect interpretation?

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, December 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, September 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  80. Book Review: On Criticism by Noël Carroll, 2009. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 210 ISBN 978 0 415 39621 9 (pbk)

    Article • Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics, October 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr Charles Forceville

  81. The metaphorical potential of sound and music

    Article • September 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • September 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • September 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  84. Extreme horror films' presentation of human victims as if they were animals

    Article • September 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  85. This is a book review.

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, July 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • January 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

  87. The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding by Mark Johnson

    Article • Metaphor and Symbol, October 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  88. Theorizing visual and visual-plus-verbal metaphor

    Article • September 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Charles Forceville

  89. 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.

    Article • Metaphor and Symbol, June 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, June 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  91. Further thoughts on delimiting pictorial metaphor

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

    Dr Charles Forceville

  92. 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

  93. 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

  94. Book Review: Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis

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

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • October 2006, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Dr Charles Forceville

  97. 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

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

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Forceville

  99. 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

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

    Article • Document Design, October 2003, John Benjamins

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

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

    Dr Charles Forceville

  102. 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

  103. 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

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

    Article • January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

  105. 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

  106. 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

  107. 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

  108. Visual metaphor in print and billboard advertisements

    Article • January 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Poetics Today, January 1995, JSTOR

    Dr Charles Forceville

  110. Reviews

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

    Dr Charles Forceville

  111. Pictorial Metaphor in Advertisements

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

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • January 1993, De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville

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

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Charles Forceville