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Título: A multimodal analysis of cognitive tools portraying terrorist affairs
Autores/as: Cortés de los Ríos, María Enriqueta
Fernández Alonso, Patricia María
Clasificación UNESCO: 570107 Lengua y literatura
550510 Filología
Palabras clave: Terrorism communication
Metaphor
Metonymy
Multimodality
Image schemas
Fecha de publicación: 2017
Publicación seriada: LFE. Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 
Resumen: A multimodal analysis of the communication of terrorism has scarcely been tackled. This study aims to explore how verbal and pictorial modes contribute to the creation of a particular conceptualization of terrorism by means of cognitive tools on different front covers of The Economist, the prestigious business and current affairs magazine. The analysis has been structured according to the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor and Metonymy and Multimodal Discourse (among others, see Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Johnson, 1987; Evans & Green, 2006; and Forceville, 2009, 2012). Our method of analysis focuses on Forceville (1996, 2009, 2012) and Forceville & Urios-Aparisi (2009), who provide clear instructions for the identification of cognitive devices in multimodal discourse. The data collection for the analysis consists of ten of this magazine’s covers, published in the period 2014-2016, dealing with terrorist attacks and immigration. The results of this analysis reveal that metaphors, metonymies and image schemas are more prevalent in the visual than the verbal mode. This shows how important pictorial representations have become to the communication of terrorism. The use of metonymies is greater than metaphors. By means of the WAR and JOURNEY domains and the use of the FIRE domain to reinforce the former, the terrorist situation is cognitively represented. Colours, considered as cognitive tools which fulfill the evaluative meaning of a particular topic, have also been taken into account. In our analysis they stand out as a sign of negativity reinforcing the horrors of war and the threat towards the people trying to escape an uncertain future.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/70383
ISSN: 1133-1127
DOI: 10.20420/rlfe.2017.186
Fuente: LFE. Revista de lenguas para fines específicos [eISSN 2340-8561], v. 23 (2), p. 359-383
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