Hongwei Liu and Youngju Choi. 2021. Visual Metonymy and Its Communicative Functions: With the 2019 Oscar Movie Green Book. Studies in Modern Grammar 109, 63-81. Littlemore (2015) claims that metonymy can perform a wide range of communicative functions in different forms and modes of expressions. This paper examines the visual metonymies observed in Green Book, the 2019 Best Picture Oscar Academy Award-winner, elucidating how the movie integrates its narrative with visual metonymy to express abstract and profound themes. Exploring various types of visual metonymy utilized in this movie, this paper reveals how the visual metonymy contributes to the communication effect of a movie. The paper also demonstrates that analysis of visual metonymy in movies enriches the current research on both visual metonymy and movie studies.
1. Introduction
2. Method and Reseearch Background
3. Visual Metonymy by Function and Their Contribution to the Movie Green Book
4. Conclusion
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