Michalle Gal

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michalle Gal is involved.

Articles

Gal, Michalle 2022 The visuality of metaphors: A formalist ontology of metaphors Visual Metaphors, Benczes, Réka and Veronika Szelid (eds.), pp. 61–80 | Chapter

This chapter proposes to define metaphor as a visual-material structure, the sphere of which is ontological rather than cognitive or conceptual. It argues that the essence of metaphor, as either an aesthetic or a communicative unit or both, resides in the qualitative dimension and appearance, or… read more

Gal, Michalle 2020 The visuality of metaphors: A formalist ontology of metaphors Visual Metaphors, Benczes, Réka and Veronika Szelid (eds.), pp. 58–77 | Article

This paper proposes to define metaphor as a visual-material structure, the sphere of which is ontological rather than cognitive or conceptual. It argues that the essence of metaphor, as either an aesthetic or a communicative unit or both, resides in the qualitative dimension and appearance, or… read more