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.
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