Multimodal representations in Banksy’s graffiti

Arantes, Rita de Cássia Bastos

doi:10.1075/ftl.20.11ara

In:The Rhetorical Mind: Current issues
Edited by Maria Clotilde Almeida, Rodrigo Furtado and Olga Blanco-Carrión
[Figurative Thought and Language 20] 2025
► pp. 171–184

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Multimodal representations in Banksy’s graffiti

Rita de Cássia Bastos Arantes | University of Lisbon

Published online: 2 September 2025

https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.20.11ara

Article outline

1.Introduction
2.Multimodal Metaphor Theory
- 2.1Multimodal and monomodal non-verbal metaphors
3.Methodology of analysis
4.Analyses of Banksy’s graffiti
- 4.1‘Thug for Life’
- 4.2‘Mona Lisa with Rocket Launcher’
5.Final remarks
Notes
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