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..., as well as in interaction theory. However, the asymmetry of visual metaphor, in which concepts are depicted in images, is debated in the existing literature. The authors argue that the main reason behind this is that images lack an explicit copula (“X is Y”); so it is not always clear what a visual...

... in painting, because where metaphors lead us to see one thing in the light of the other, so with hybrid creatures we can see either or any part of the hybrid in the light of the other part or parts. With some of the similarities between metaphorical speech and visual perception and interpretation identified...

...Daniel W. Gleason In this essay I investigate how image metaphors—metaphors that link one concrete object to another, such as “her spread hand was a starfish”—promote visualization in the reader. Focusing on image metaphors in Imagist poetry, I assert that the two terms (e.g., the hand...

... that language has a freezing effect in the case of an extreme visual phenomenon such as the hybrid, it is all the more restraining in moderate artistic compositions, such as visual metaphors, in which properties of one component (the source) are applied to the other (the target). In those, nonconceptuality...

... presents a structural analysis of the visual hybrid in terms of a schematological hierarchy; it is joined by essays that address philosophical and aesthetic aspects of the visual hybrid and its perception, visual hybrids’ relations to metaphors, hybrids in the visual arts, cultural analyses of visual...

.... Notes on Contributors 211 Amitash Ojha is currently a researcher at the University of Cagliari, Italy. He got his PhD in cognitive science from IIIT-H, India. His PhD thesis was entitled “An Empirical Study on Visual Metaphors,” in which he conducted empirical studies including eye tracking...

... “Interpreting Visual Metaphors: Asymmetry and Reversibility.” Special issue , Poetics Today 38 , no. 1 : 93 – 122 . Jackendoff Ray Aaron David 1991 “More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor by George Lakoff; Mark Turner,” Language 67 , no. 2 : 320 – 38...

...Siglind Bruhn Not only poets may respond to a work of visual art with a creative act in their own medium, transposing the style and structure, the message and metaphors from the visual to the verbal. Composers, more and more frequently,are also exploring this interartistic mode of transfer...

... visual and sensual. Then the paradigms of visual rhetoric are outlined to propose a possible classification of visual hybrids, illustrated by contemporary examples from art and advertising. References Aczél Petra . 2011 . “ Enchanting Bewilderment .” In Images in Language: Metaphors...

... specializes in aesthetics, philosophy of art and design, visual ontology and perception, and metaphors theories. Her current project “Visualism”: A New Externalist, Broad Version of Formalism in Aesthetics” endorses the evolving “visual turn” in philosophy. Gal is the author of the monographs Introduction...

... “ Dugald Stewart: His Development in Scottish and European Context ,” special issue, of History of European Ideas 38 , no 1 : 1 – 178 . Indurkhya Bipin Ojha Amitash 2017 “ Interpreting Visual Metaphors: Asymmetry and Reversibility ,” Poetics Today 38 : 93 – 121...

... origins of the metaphors that aesthetics “lived by” in mid-eighteenth-century France and in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. What kind of cultural crisis engenders the cult of difficulty and retardation? How is this aesthetics connected to the idea of freedom? In order to answer...

... as the mechanism by which bidirectional metaphors may turn into unidirectional ones. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 comparison visual metaphor conceptual metaphor grammatical asymmetry language References Boroditsky Lera 2000 “Metaphoric Structuring...

... particularly instructive for the present attempt to exam- ine the space between thing and theory. Martin Jay (1993a: 1) has playfully reminded us that, ‘‘if we actively focus our attention on [the ubiquity of visual metaphors], vigilantly...

... ( velare : “to veil) and, of course, insight. The next example, from Ivan Bunin's ( 2002 ) short story “Sunstroke,” also concerns a belated revelation of feelings and is even more emphatic in its use of visual metaphor. “Sunstroke” tells a story about a chance encounter between a lieutenant...

...- tial for metaphorical extension is dramatically increased when the Vision framework occurs in combination with the other modes of conceptualiza- tion that we are about to examine. As I will soon demonstrate,Tolstoy often relies on visual metaphors of this kind—as well as on their latent potential...

... for truth and justice, but the ACM of the “red pill” crystallizes the masterplot into a single compact discursive item that works as a verbal or visual metaphor for an epiphany. The alleged culprit of Musk's conspiracy is hidden in the rose emoji. On Twitter, the rose has come to signify allegiance...

... • Languages of Art 521 phors that consider visual art in terms of language, and all use many of the same metaphoric words to describe their art, such as language, story, and so forth. It is against the background of these similarities that the divisions in these artists’ conceptualizations...

... and Japanese poetic texts, revealing the metaphor-icon links variously manifested on visual, oral, grammatical, and conceptual levels; and (3) further consideration of metaphor and iconicity in grammar and discourse in general. Here, Hiraga focuses on the visual/oral distinctions between logographic...

... provides the criterion of visibility. Things that can be seen are believed to exist, therefore metaphors that specify visual objects lend credi- bility to the idea that there truly was a figure in the carpet. By contrast, the primary metaphor ESSENCE IS INTERNAL is associated with the quality of being...