Metaphoricity of Conventionalized Diegetic Images in Comics: A Study in Multimodal Cognitive Linguistics.

Cover 
 Table of contents
 Introduction
 Chapter 1. Theoretical orientation
 1.0. Introduction
 1.1. An overview of the current research into the meaning-making potential of comics
 1.1.1. The origins and early stages of comics scholarship
 1.1.2. The new comics scholarship
 1.1.2.1. Seminal contributions from practicing cartoonists
 1.1.2.2. Internationalization of the new comics scholarship
 1.1.2.3. Popularization of research into comics
 1.1.2.4. The formalist strand of the new comics scholarship
 1.2. An outline of Peirce\'s sign theory 1.2.1. The correlates of the sign and continuous semiosis1.2.2. Classification of signs
 1.2.2.1. The first trichotomy: qualisigns, sinsigns, and legisigns
 1.2.2.2. The second trichotomy: icons, indexes, and symbols
 1.2.2.3. The third trichotomy: rhemes, dicisigns, and arguments
 1.3. An outline of conceptual metaphor theory
 1.3.1. The origins of conceptual metaphor theory
 1.3.2. Main elements of conceptual metaphor theory
 1.3.2.1. The principle of unidirectionality
 1.3.2.2. The dichotomy between source and target domains
 1.3.2.3. Orientational, ontological, and structural metaphors 1.3.2.4. Conceptual metaphors and image schemas1.3.2.5. Image-schematic metaphors and other kinds of conceptual metaphor as overlapping categories
 1.3.2.6. Other characteristics of conceptual metaphors
 1.3.2.7. The invariance hypothesis/principle and its limitations
 1.3.3. Primary metaphor theory
 1.3.4. Objectification theory
 1.3.5. Interaction of metaphor and metonymy
 1.3.6. Linguistic and nonlinguistic manifestations of conceptual metaphors
 1.4. On the compatibility of Peirce\'s conception of metaphor with conceptual metaphor theory 1.5. An outline of a cognitive-semiotic approach to the study of metaphorical signs in comicsChapter 2. Metaphoricity of individual comics panels and multi-panel complexes
 2.0. Introduction
 2.1. A general characterization of panels and multiframes
 2.1.1. Ontology of the panel
 2.1.2. Formal parameters of panels
 2.1.3. Panels as units of increasingly inclusive formal structures
 2.1.4. Spatial and temporal interrelatedness of panels
 2.1.5. Fragmentariness of multi-panel structures and their interpretation
 2.2. A Peircean semiotic characterization of panels and multiframes 2.2.1. Imaginal and diagrammatic hypoiconicity of panels2.2.2. Indexicality of panels and multi-panel complexes
 2.2.3. Symbolicity of panels and multi-panel complexes
 2.2.4. Metaphorical hypoiconicity of panels and multi-panel complexes
 2.3. Metaphors characterizing individual panels and their verbal manifestations
 2.3.1. Metaphorical reifications of episodic situations in comics and language
 2.3.1.1. Metaphorical reification of episodic situations as objects in comics and language
 2.3.1.2. Metaphorical reification of episodic situations as containers in comics and language