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Visual Metaphor: Structure and process
Edited by Gerard J. Steen
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 18] 2018
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Chapter 2
Ways with pictures

Visual incongruities and metaphor

Article outline
  • 2.1Introduction
  • 2.2Visual incongruities: Three examples
  • 2.3Visual incongruities defined
    • 2.3.1Two-domain incongruities
    • 2.3.2One-domain incongruities
  • 2.4Incongruity resolution
    • 2.4.1Substitute
    • 2.4.2Merge
    • 2.4.3Insert
    • 2.4.4Distort and Erase
    • 2.4.5Summary
  • 2.5Closing remarks
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 6 December 2018
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