We move: a journey metaphor in selected Ghanaian political cartoons

The research examines how Ghanaian political cartoonists employ journey imagery to explicate economic, socio-political, and topical/trendy issues. The effective communication of social issues requires the utilisation of compelling devices, such as metaphorical and metonymical representations, and sy...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Language and Semiotic Studies
Main Author:	Boakye-Yiadom George
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	De Gruyter 2025-04-01
Subjects:	journey metaphors political cartoons conceptual metaphor theory ghana multimodal metaphor multimodality
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1515/lass-2024-0069

Similar Items

Coterminous Uppercut: An Analysis of Boxing Metaphors in Selected Ghanaian Political Cartoons
by: George Boakye-Yiadom
Published: (2025-10-01)

The Conceptualization of Visual and Multimodal Metaphors in Iraqi Newspaper Cartoons
by: حيدر الساعدي
Published: (2025-06-01)

Social Media Cartooning: Visual and Multimodal Metaphors in Iraqi Newspapers Cartoons
by: Hayder Tuma Jassim Alsaedi
Published: (2025-06-01)

Pictorial Metaphor in Citizen Cartoons: A Case Study on Environmental Issue
by: Bahare Ghaderi nezhad, et al.
Published: (2023-06-01)

Multimodal metaphor and metonymy in political cartoons as a means of country image construction
by: Shaoyang Guan, et al.
Published: (2023-07-01)

Oil as narcotic or as medicine: the DISEASE metaphor in political cartoons on energy crisis
by: Zhao Xiufeng, et al.
Published: (2023-03-01)

Covid-Related Issues Visual Representation in British and American Cartoons
by: Svetlana Yu. Pavlina
Published: (2021-09-01)

Visual Metaphor of Javanese Cartoon: The Interpretation of Cultural Socio-Politic in Goenawan Pranyoto’s Comic Cartoon Mbeling “Ande Ande Lumut” (1951-2014)
by: Abdullah Ibnu Thalhah
Published: (2016-06-01)

The Institutional Discourse of Authorities and Firefighting Services in Political Cartoons: 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires
by: A. V. Dymova, et al.
Published: (2025-09-01)

Visual Metaphor: Likeness of Unlike Things in Cartoons
by: Mohsen Zarifian
Published: (2025-12-01)

Application of the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor and Metonymy to Iran's Cinema: A Case Study of "the Snow on the Pines"
by: Amirsaeid Moloodi, et al.
Published: (2021-05-01)

THE ROLE OF GESTURES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MULTIMODAL METAPHORS: analysis of a political-electoral debate
by: Maíra Avelar Miranda, et al.

Identifying Metaphors in TV Commercials with FILMIP: The Filmic Metaphor Identification Procedure
by: Lorena Bort-Mir
Published: (2021-12-01)

Going political – multimodal metaphor framings on a cover of the sports newspaper A Bola
by: Maria Clotilde Almeida
Published: (2016-12-01)

Representation of Metaphor ‘FUTURE EVENTS ARE AHEAD’ in German Political Cartoons
by: Galina L. Denisova
Published: (2024-12-01)

Existence is a Location: “The Others” in the Form of Conceptual Metaphor
by: Park Morgan Mok-Won
Published: (2023-12-01)

USING MULTIMODAL CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN EFL CLASSROOM TO ENHANCE LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS
by: Arsalan Golfam, et al.
Published: (2021-11-01)

A Steep and Rocky Path to Brexit: Creative Metaphors in British Political Discourse on Brexit
by: Lejla Aljukić
Published: (2019-05-01)

Content of conceptual metaphors in political discourse
by: Ivana Zovko-Bošnjak
Published: (2018-01-01)

Metaphorical Indicators of the Hyperthemes of “Dune: Part One” (2021): A Multimodal Cognitive-Linguistic Case Study
by: Michał Szawerna, et al.
Published: (2023-06-01)

Metaphor in the ESP engineering context
by: Ana Roldán-Riejos, et al.
Published: (2013-04-01)

EMERGENCE OF CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN ECOLOGICAL FILMIC DISCOURSE
by: Yana V. Vermenych
Published: (2020-12-01)

When to use a metaphor: metaphors in dialogical explanations with addressees of different expertise
by: Ingrid Scharlau, et al.
Published: (2024-12-01)

Marco Tibasima’s Cartoon Representations of the Education Crisis in Tanzania
by: Deo S. Ngonyani
Published: (2024-06-01)

Conceptual Metaphor and its Functions in the Religious Texts; A linguistic Approach to Metaphor. [In Persian]
by: Shima Hamidi
Published: (2019-03-01)

Portrayal of the COVID-19 pandemic in political cartoons in Tanzania
by: Amani Lusekelo
Published: (2023-12-01)

Representation of a Scientific Supervisor in Internet-Memes
by: N. V. Stepanova, et al.
Published: (2024-04-01)

Multimodal artistic metaphors: Research on a corpus of Sardinian art
by: Alice Guerrieri, et al.
Published: (2023-09-01)

Report from the 13th International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor: "Metaphorical Creativity in a Multilingual World" (Hamar, Norway, 18–21 June 2020)
by: Julia Ostanina-Olszewska
Published: (2021-12-01)

Multimodálne mémy a ich metaforické dimenzie
by: Róbert Čičmanec
Published: (2025-12-01)

Conceptual Metaphor Theory Guides GANs for Generating Metaphors and Interpretations
by: Xincheng Shou, et al.
Published: (2024-01-01)

Metaphor as an Element of Persuasion in Political Discourse
by: Marek Hampl
Published: (2012-03-01)

The Conceptual Metaphor of Cell for Ethics
by: Abdollah Salavati
Published: (2021-12-01)

WHAT IS A METAPHORICAL COLLOCATION?
by: Jakob Patekar
Published: (2022-01-01)

Translating Metaphorical Expressions in Churchill’s Diary from English into Arabic
by: Mohammed Nihad Ahmed Mohammed Nihad Ahmed, et al.
Published: (2024-06-01)

A cultural cognitive study of EARTH metaphors in Chinese and English idioms
by: Chuanhong Chen
Published: (2025-12-01)

ENGLISH AND BIELORUSSIAN METAPHORS IN ECONOMIC DISCOURSE
by: N.S. Kukharenka
Published: (2015-04-01)

Terrorism in Media Political Discourse: from Metaphorical Expressions to Cognitive Models
by: Liudmila Arcimavičienė
Published: (2010-02-01)

A journey from darkness to dawn: Metaphoric variation in depression recovery stories posted on Chinese Wechat subscription accounts
by: Lin Lin, et al.
Published: (2025-06-01)

MILITARY METAPHORS AS MEANS OF POLITICAL VALIDITY REPRESENTATION IN YULIA TYMOSHENKO'S IDIOSTYLE
by: K. A. Kovaleva
Published: (2013-11-01)