Metaphor and symbol: SEARCHING FOR ONE’S IDENTITY IS LOOKING FOR A HOME in animation film

Forceville, Charles

doi:10.1075/rcl.11.2.03for

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Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by María Jesús Pinar Sanz
[Review of Cognitive Linguistics 11:2] 2013
► pp. 250–268

Metaphor and symbol

SEARCHING FOR ONE’S IDENTITY IS LOOKING FOR A HOME in animation film

Charles Forceville

The quickly growing discipline of multimodality has hitherto primarily found its inspirational models in semiotics and in Systemic Functional Linguistics. However, Cognitive Linguistics, and specifically its Conceptual Metaphor Theory branch, has over the past years proved a store of knowledge and methods of analysis that can benefit the further advance of the young discipline. In this paper the metaphor searching for one’s identity is looking for a home in animation films is examined. It is shown that (a) analysing this metaphor presupposes understanding “home” as a symbol; (b) animation has medium-specific affordances to implement the metaphor; (c) the metaphor combines embodied and cultural dimensions.

Keywords: conceptual metaphor, source-path-goal, life is a journey, symbolism, multimodality, animation film

Published online: 28 November 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.11.2.03for

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