Vermenych Y. Multimodal Metaphors with the Conceptual Referent ECOLOGY in English Ecological Cinematic Discourse

This thesis studies multimodal instantiations of conceptual metaphors with the conceptual referent which belongs to the domain ECOLOGY in English ecological cinematic discourse. The aim of the study is to identify the specifics of the interaction of verbal, visual, and aural modes of actualization of conceptual metaphors during metaphorical meaning-making in English Ecological Cinematic Discourse. Conceptual metaphor instantiated in ecological cinematic discourse is operationalized as a semantic unity construed in the interaction of heterogeneous semiotic modes; a comprehensive method of multimodal discourse analysis of conceptual metaphors with the conceptual referent belonging to the ECOLOGY domain is developed for English ecological cinematic discourse; types of multimodal conceptual metaphors instantiated in ecological cinematic discourse are brought to light; senses actualized by the metaphors under scrutiny are systematized; combinatory models and contextual modifications of the metaphors under analysis are revealed; discursive effects of multimodal instantiations of conceptual metaphors with the conceptual referent ECOLOGY in ecological cinematic discourse are elucidated.