Cognitive linguistic and semiotic accounts of metaphor have addressed similar issues such
as universality, conventionality, context-sensitivity, cross-cultural variation, creativity, and …

Semantic feature norms (eg, STIMULUS: car→ RESPONSE:) are commonly used in
cognitive psychology to look into salient aspects of given concepts. Semantic features are …

Research on (verbo-) pictorial metaphors and other rhetorical figures is primarily focused on
the genre of advertising, leaving other genres under-investigated. In this study, the authors …

While concrete concepts can be graphically represented within the pictorial mode by
showing the referent that they designate, abstract concepts lack concrete referents that can …

According to the feature-based view of semantic representation, concepts can be
represented as distributed networks of semantic features, which contribute with different …

An increasingly large body of converging evidence supports the idea that the semantic
system is distributed across brain areas and that the information encoded therein is …

An open question in research on multimodal figuration is how to mitigate the analyst's bias in
identifying and interpreting metaphor and metonymy; an issue that determines the …

The thesis is a collection of four papers on Greek street art (specifically situated in the city of
Athens) with a focus on metaphors and narratives. The overall aim guiding this thesis is to …

What is the relation between the three following elements: words, pictures, and conceptual
representations? And how do these three elements work, in defining and explaining …

Purpose Using visual metaphors with physical artefacts can improve collaboration planning
processes in strategic meetings. The study presented here aims to examine these …