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Edited by Maria Clotilde Almeida, Rodrigo Furtado and Olga Blanco-Carrión
[Figurative Thought and Language 20] 2025
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Experience and film meta­phor

A case study

 | University of Connecticut
Published online: 2 September 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.20.08uri
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Experience 1: Travelling to an island
  • 3.Experience 2: Island container and support image schemas
  • 4.Experience 3: Landscapes and seascapes
  • 5.Experience 4: Mainland versus island
  • 6.Experience 5: Location and nature
  • 7.Experience 6: Travelling between islands
  • 8.Ingmar Bergman’s experience and cinema
  • 9.Discussion and conclusions
  • References
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