By collecting 100 cartoons related to the COVID-19 pandemic from whole world, this paper uses Yu Yanming’s theoretical framework of metaphorical representation perspective multimodal metaphors classify mappings these works. This also tries analyze political stances and attitudes towards displayed behind cartoons. attempts explore how topic is conveyed communicated via in aims show different met...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent and types of cigarette advertising materials in stores and to assess tobacco company compliance with the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). DESIGN A cross-sectional analysis of a random sample of 586 stores that sold cigarettes. SETTING US state of California. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Trained data collectors classified cigarette advertising materials by t...

I’m a regular guy. I like sports, particularly football. I enjoy action movies and silly sitcoms. Occasionally I watch cartoons, giggling like a kid at the antics of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Yosemite Sam. I’d like to posthumously punish whoever invented suits and ties. When I visit McDonald’s and Wendy’s, I don’t order the salads. If you give the remote to me, I won’t return it until I flip ...

We consider the important challenge of recognizing a variety of deformable objects in images. Of fundamental importance and particular difficulty in this setting is the problem of “outlining” an object, rather than simply deciding on its presence or absence. A major obstacle in learning a model that will allow us to address this task is the need for hand-segmented training images. In this paper...

Six million migrants from over 170 countries have resettled in Australia since 1945 ensuring religious diversity is now a hallmark of Australia's population. However, not all religious groups are perceived in the same way. In this paper, we explore how representational processes differentially essentialise religious groups, in particular how some groups are ascribed an underlying nature that ir...

Iconic representations are ubiquitous; they fill children's cartoons, add humor to newspapers, and bring emotional tone to online communication. Yet, the communicative function they serve remains unaddressed by cognitive psychology. Here, we examined the hypothesis that iconic representations communicate emotional information more efficiently than their realistic counterparts. In Experiment 1, ...

OBJECTIVE This article presents the results of interviews conducted with children regarding their cognitive and affective responses toward a narrative and a non-narrative cartoon. The findings will be used to further explore the role of a narrative in motivating continued active videogame play. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty children (8-11 years old of mixed gender) watched two cartoons (narrat...