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41
Citations
13912
World Ranking
4883
National Ranking
198

Overview

Charles Forceville is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans the fields of Arts and Humanities and Psychology, with a focus on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Language and Linguistics. Their work engages with subjects intersecting visual communication, language, and cognition.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Psychology

Subfields covered in their research include:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts
  • Philosophy
  • Speech and Hearing

Key research topics addressed by Charles Forceville are:

  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
  • Digital Storytelling and Education
  • Comics and Graphic Narratives
  • Subtitles and Audiovisual Media
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Translation Studies and Practices

Their recent academic publications reflect these interests. Notable papers include:

  • "Identifying and Interpreting Visual and Multimodal Metaphor in Commercials and Feature Films," 2024, published in Metaphor and Symbol
  • "Metaphor and metonymy in Chinese and American political cartoons (2018-2019) about the Sino-US trade conflict," 2020, published in Pragmatics & Cognition
  • "Making cross-cultural meaning in five Chinese promotion clips: Metonymies and metaphors," 2020, published in Intercultural Pragmatics
  • "Visual and multimodal interaction of metaphor and metonymy," 2020, published in Cognitive Linguistic Studies
  • "An experimental study on the effect of emotion lines in comics," 2021, published in Semiotica

Charles Forceville frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Visual Communication
  • Leonardo
  • Pragmatics & Cognition
  • Journal of Pragmatics
  • Metaphor and Symbol

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors including:

  • Zahra Kashanizadeh
  • Cun Zhang
  • Yue Guan
  • Amitash Ojha
  • Bipin Indurkhya

Best Publications

  • Pictorial metaphor in advertising

    Charles Forceville

  • [Review of: G. Kress (2010) Multimodality: a social semiotic approach to contemporary communication]

    Charles J. Forceville

  • Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist framework: agendas for research

    Charles Forceville

  • Metaphor in pictures and multimodal representations

    Charles Forceville

  • The identification of target and source in pictorial metaphors

    Charles Forceville

  • The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis: Carey Jewitt (Ed.), Routledge, London, 2009, 340 pages, ISBN 13: 978-0-415-43437-9 (hbk)

    Charles J. Forceville

  • Metaphors in editorial cartoons representing the global financial crisis

    Liliana Bounegru;Charles Forceville

  • Pictorial Metaphor in Advertisements

    Charles Forceville

  • Multimodal Metaphor in Ten Dutch TV Commercials

    Charles Forceville

  • Visual representations of the idealized cognitive model of anger in the Asterix album 'La Zizanie'

    Charles Forceville

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

    Margot van Mulken;Rob le Pair;Charles Forceville

  • Educating the eye? Kress and Van Leeuwen’s Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design (1996):

    Charles Forceville

  • Pictorial runes in 'Tintin and the Picaros'

    Charles Forceville

  • Relevance Theory as model for analysing visual and multimodal communication

    Charles Forceville

  • Metonymy in Visual and Audiovisual Discourse

    Charles Forceville

  • The GOOD IS LIGHT and BAD IS DARK metaphor in feature films

    Charles J. Forceville;Thijs Renckens

  • Multimodal Transcription and Text Analysis: A Multimedia Toolkit and Coursebook

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  • The role of non-verbal sound and music in multimodal metaphor

    C.J. Forceville

  • Balloonics: the visuals of balloons in comics

    Charles Forceville;Tony Veale;Kurt Feyaerts

  • Addressing an audience: Time, place, and genre in Peter van Straaten’s calendar cartoons

    Charles Forceville

  • Creativity in pictorial and multimodal advertising metaphors

    C. Forceville

  • Pictorial and multimodal metaphor

    Charles Forceville

  • Stylistics and comics

    Charles Forceville;Elisabeth El Refaie;Gert Meesters

  • [Review of: T.D. Royce, W.L. Bowcher (2007) New directions in the analysis of multimodal discourse]

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  • Visual and Multimodal Communication: Applying the Relevance Principle

    Charles Forceville

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