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Visual Arguments: What Is at Issue in the Multimodality Debate?
Informal Logic and Argumentation Theory claim to accept a sense of ‘argument’ that is broader than the sense used in classical logic and mainstream...
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Pragmatics, Metaphor Studies and the Challenge of Mental Imagery
In this paper we will discuss how pragmatics (from Grice to Relevance theorists) has considered the relationship between mental imagery and metaphors...
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Multimodality, Digitalization and Cognitivity in Communication and Pedagogy
This book positions itself at the intersection of the key areas of the modern humanities. Different authors from a variety of countries take...
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Communication Challenges in Modern Social Practices
Communication[aut]Communication challenges to the twenty-first century humankind are as serious as materialistic ones. Search for meaning, the...
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Regulating Social Behaviour by Multimodal Public Signs: Semiotic Pragmatics of Prohibition
Interaction[aut]Social behaviour in both[aut]Prohibition institutional and everyday situations involves a range of resources. Apart from verbal...
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Putting Space in Place. Multimodal Translation of the Grand Challenge of Regional Smart Specialization from Policy to Cross-sector Partnerships
Place-based policies tackle grand socio-economic challenges through differentiated, context-sensitive interventions. However, they often run the risk...
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When Both Utterances and Appearances are Deceptive: Deception in Multimodal Film Narrative
This article gives a comprehensive theoretical account of deception in multimodal film narrative in the light of the pragmatics of film discourse,...
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Patterns of Discourse Organization in Multimodal Discourse of Crowdfunding Project Presentations
Rapid[aut]Discourseorganization development[aut]Multimodaldiscourse of[aut]Projectcrowdfunding multimodal communication[aut]Multimodalcommunication...
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An analysis of conceptual ambiguities in the debate on the format of concepts
There is a debate in philosophy and cognitive science over whether concepts – the building blocks of thought—are couched in a perceptual modality or...
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The Intelligibility of Haptic Perception in Instructional Sequences: When Visually Impaired People Achieve Object Understanding
In this paper, we study the interactional organization of an instructed object exploration among sighted and visually impaired people (VIPs) in order...
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From Statics to Dynamics: Intersemiotic Conversion of Metaphor and Its Consequences
The present chapter combines the tools developed in multimodal studies of metaphor in comics and film, as well as those we find in comparative...
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Methodological Problems in Analysing Non-verbal Arguments: The Case of Visual Argumentation
For[aut]Arguments the last twenty years (or so) the field of argumentationArgumentation has been becoming more “flexible” and open to new approaches,...
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Literature Review
In this chapter, the key concepts in this research are illustrated. Before an analytical model is constructed, a broad review of what have been going...
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Constitutivity in Flavour Perception
Within contemporary philosophy of perception, it is commonly claimed that flavour experiences are paradigmatic examples of multimodal perceptual...
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Discoverability Explained
Fruitfully approaching the problems of discoverability involves an important intermediate step, which concerns the role of abductive cognition, that...
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Interspecies Haptic Sociality: The Interactional Constitution of the Horse’s Esthesiologic Body in Equestrian Activities
This article explores forms of haptic sociality in interspecies interaction. Data examined are taken from a corpus of equine assisted therapy...
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Quantifying Qualia
This chapter aims to critically review how affective machine learning models are being currently developed based on categorical thinking. The topic...
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Knowledge and attitudes about end-of-life decisions, good death and principles of medical ethics among doctors in tertiary care hospitals in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundCompetent end-of-life care is an essential component of total health care provision, but evidence suggests that it is often deficient. This...
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‘Do You Believe in God, Doctor?’ The Atheism of Fiction and the Fiction of Atheism
This paper is an enquiry into some commonalities between fiction and atheism. It suggests that ‘disbelief’ may be a state of mind shared by both and...