A Study of Multimodal Metaphor in the Film Deep Sea from the Cognitive Perspective
Grounded in Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and the multimodal metaphor framework, this study examines 58 valid multimodal metaphors identified in the 2023 Chinese animated film Deep Sea. Adopting a mixed-methods approach of quantitative statistics and qualitative case analysis, it categorizes the metaphors, describes...