Charles Forceville

Charles Forceville

Universiteit van Amsterdam

H-index: 45

Europe-Netherlands

About Charles Forceville

Charles Forceville, With an exceptional h-index of 45 and a recent h-index of 32 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Universiteit van Amsterdam, specializes in the field of Pictorial/Visual & Multimodal Metaphor/Communication & Cognition, Audiovisual Rhetoric & Narration, Relevance Theory.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Identifying and interpreting visual and multimodal metaphor in commercials and feature films (published open access)

Identifying and interpreting visual metaphors in political cartoons

Narrating and focalizing visually and visual-verbally in comics and graphic novels (published open access)

Relevance theory perspectives on web-mediated communication

Visual and multimodal communication across cultures

The depiction of family and self in children’s picture books: A corpus-driven exploration

Evaluating animentary’s potential as a rhetorical genre

The metaphorical representation of depression in short, wordless animation films (publ. ahead of print Sept. 2018)

Charles Forceville Information

University

Position

Associate professor Media Studies ; guest lecturer AUC

Citations(all)

11385

Citations(since 2020)

4894

Cited By

8152

hIndex(all)

45

hIndex(since 2020)

32

i10Index(all)

79

i10Index(since 2020)

67

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Charles Forceville Skills & Research Interests

Pictorial/Visual & Multimodal Metaphor/Communication & Cognition

Audiovisual Rhetoric & Narration

Relevance Theory

Top articles of Charles Forceville

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Identifying and interpreting visual and multimodal metaphor in commercials and feature films (published open access)

Metaphor and Symbol

Charles Forceville

2024/1/2

Identifying and interpreting visual metaphors in political cartoons

Charles Forceville

2024/5/6

Narrating and focalizing visually and visual-verbally in comics and graphic novels (published open access)

Pragmatics & Cognition

Charles Forceville

2023/11/9

Relevance theory perspectives on web-mediated communication

Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond

Charles Forceville

Natalia Sánchez-Querubín

2022/9/15

Visual and multimodal communication across cultures

Charles Forceville

2022

The depiction of family and self in children’s picture books: A corpus-driven exploration

Coral Calvo-Maturana

Charles Forceville

2022

Evaluating animentary’s potential as a rhetorical genre

Visual Communication

Anniek Plomp

Charles Forceville

2021/8

The metaphorical representation of depression in short, wordless animation films (publ. ahead of print Sept. 2018)

Visual Communication

Charles Forceville

Sissy Paling

2021/2

An experimental study on the effect of emotion lines in comics

Semiotica

Amitash Ojha

Charles Forceville

Bipin Indurkhya

2021

Multimodality

Matt Kessler

2022/10

Visual and multimodal interaction of metaphor and metonymy: A study of Iranian and Dutch print advertisements

etap hors

Zahra Kashanizadeh

Charles Forceville

2022

Making cross-cultural meaning in five Chinese promotion clips: Metonymies and metaphors

Intercultural Pragmatics

Yue Guan

Charles Forceville

2020/4/28

Watching film with one’s body (= review essay centering on Coegnarts 2019 and Gallese & Guerra 2019)

Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture

Charles Forceville

2020

Visual and Multimodal Communication: Applying the Relevance Principle

Charles Forceville

2020

Book review: Elisabeth El Refaie (2019). Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives, Oxford University Press, New York, 232 pp (including 36 figures in b/w …

Charles Forceville

2020/1/1

Metaphor and metonymy in Chinese and American political cartoons (2018–2019) about the Sino-US trade conflict

Pragmatics & Cognition

Cun Zhang

Charles Forceville

2020/12/31

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Co-Authors

H-index: 50
Paul Hekkert

Paul Hekkert

Technische Universiteit Delft

H-index: 40
Tony Veale

Tony Veale

University College Dublin

H-index: 29
Bipin Indurkhya

Bipin Indurkhya

Uniwersytet Jagiellonski

H-index: 23
Jens E. Kjeldsen

Jens E. Kjeldsen

Universitetet i Bergen

H-index: 19
Elisabeth (Lisa) El Refaie

Elisabeth (Lisa) El Refaie

Cardiff University

H-index: 18
Margot van Mulken

Margot van Mulken

Radboud Universiteit

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