Elisabeth El Refaie
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elisabeth El Refaie plays a role.
Articles
2022 Chapter 5. Creative visual metaphors of protracted and frozen time in autobiographical comics about depression Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity, Piata, Anna, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión (eds.), pp. 101–124 | Chapter
One common but lesser-known symptom of depression is distorted temporal perception. This chapter analyzes visual metaphors in seven graphic memoirs about depression, revealing the unique opportunities for creativity in the evocation of subjective time offered by this genre. Specifically, the… read more
2015 Scoring a goal or an own-goal against disease? A multilevel framework for describing metaphor coherence in health campaigns Metaphor and the Social World 5:1, pp. 102–123 | Article
Many contemporary public health campaigns use some form of metaphor. Studies into what makes this strategy effective typically focus on the ability of metaphors to attract attention and trigger conversations. Consequently, the question of how they might enhance or impede people’s understanding of… read more
2015 Cross-modal resonances in creative multimodal metaphors: Breaking out of conceptual prisons Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics, Pinar Sanz, María Jesús (ed.), pp. 13–26 | Article
This article uses examples of multimodal metaphors from three different genres in order to develop a new understanding of the nature of creativity in metaphor. I argue that multimodality provides distinctive opportunities for metaphor creativity by exploiting the unique affordances of the different… read more
2014 Appearances and dis/dys-appearances: A dynamic view of embodiment in Conceptual Metaphor Theory Metaphor and the Social World 4:1, pp. 109–125 | Article
This article draws on phenomenological and sociological notions of the ‘lived’ body in order to develop a dynamic perspective on embodiment in Conceptual Metaphor Theory. My main argument is that even our most basic sensorimotor experiences are more complex, fluid, and more deeply imbued with… read more
2013 Cross-modal resonances in creative multimodal metaphors: Breaking out of conceptual prisons Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics, Pinar Sanz, María Jesús (ed.), pp. 236–249 | Article
This article uses examples of multimodal metaphors from three different genres in order to develop a new understanding of the nature of creativity in metaphor. I argue that multimodality provides distinctive opportunities for metaphor creativity by exploiting the unique affordances of the… read more