Understanding visual metaphor: The example of newspaper cartoons

Visual Communication

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 75-95

  Refaie, elisabeth el ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Austrian newspapers; cartoons; cognitive metaphor theory; refugees; visual metaphor

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746431433     PISSN: 14703572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470357203002001755     Document Type: Article

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