This paper aligns with a field of research that deals with the use of multi-modal metaphors from a cognitive-discursive perspective. In this context, we aim to investigate the role played by images in the instantiation of ...

According to the theory of conceptual metaphor, image-schemas and primary metaphors are preconceptual structures configured in human cognition, based on sensory-motor environmental activity. Focusing on the way both ...

This study is a description of the use of conceptual metaphors and their metaphorical expressions in stand-up comedy routines, implemented by a multimodal approach, both qualitative and quantitative. It aims at identifying ...

In recent years, studies have suggested that gestures influence comprehension of linguistic expressions, for example, eliciting an N400 component in response to a speech/gesture mismatch. In this paper, we investigate the ...

Our communicational landscape has been occupied by command buttons, system messages, progress indicators, mouse pointers, and other conventions of digital interfaces. Emerging in texts of a diverse nature, these semiotic ...

In this dissertation, I raise, as a research problem, the interaction of metaphorical and metonymic processes in the production of meaning in multimodal texts. My proposal is to explain in detail the way metaphor and ...