Author(s)

Tingyu Chu

School of Foreign Languages, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.

Based on Forceville’s (1996) multimodal metaphor theory, the present study analyzes the multimodal metaphors in 6 newspaper cartoons representing COVID-19, exploring how pictorial and verbal means of expression are used to create multimodal metaphors. The results show that 1) Pictorial mode, verbal mode, and verbal & pictorial mode are the major modes used in the multimodal metaphorical representations; 2) The embodied aspects of the source domains are often complemented by socio-cultural knowledge.

Multimodal Metaphors, Newspaper Cartoons, COVID-19, Pictorial Mode

Chu, T.Y. (2022) A Study of Multimodal Metaphors in Newspaper Cartoons Representing COVID-19. Open Access Library Journal, 9, 1-10. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1109245.