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In:Visual Metaphor: Structure and process
Edited by Gerard J. Steen
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 18] 2018
► pp. 89–114

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Chapter 4
VisMet 1.0

An online corpus of visual metaphors

Published online: 6 December 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.18.04bol
Article outline
  • 4.1The VisMet corpus
    • 4.1.1The need for a corpus of visual metaphors
    • 4.1.2The VisMet project
    • 4.1.3The construction of the VisMet corpus
  • 4.2Theoretical background and related work
    • 4.2.1Vismet and contemporary models of visual metaphor
    • 4.2.2The semiotic dimensions of visual metaphor
  • 4.3Analyzing images in Vismet
    • 4.3.1Analyzing different dimensions of visually encoded meaning
    • 4.3.2Expression
    • 4.3.3Conceptualization
    • 4.3.4The annotation process
    • 4.3.5Annotation problems
      • Images that have been dropped
      • Problems with realization
      • Problems with symbolism
      • Problems with the linguistic familiarity
  • 4.4The VisMet website
    • 4.4.1Implementation details
    • 4.4.2Filtering images with the side bar
    • 4.4.3Image profile
    • 4.4.4Text pages
    • 4.4.5Social networks
  • 4.5VisMet 1.0 and its future
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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