The use of monomodal and multimodal metaphors in advertising Jordanian and American food products on Facebook: A comparative study.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	Jahameh, Haifaa Zibin, Aseel
Copyright Year	2023
Abstract	This study investigates the use of monomodal and multimodal metaphors in Jordanian and American advertisements for promoting food products on Facebook. 180 advertisements including monomodal and multimodal metaphors were collected from the Facebook pages of 12 famous restaurants in Jordan and the USA. The analysis shows that monomodal and multimodal metaphors could be used as a persuasive strategy in food advertisements not to facilitate understanding of the target domain since the latter is concrete, but to create imaginative depictions of the advertised product, making it more appealing to consumers. The results show that contextual monomodal metaphors are pervasive in the corpus since they allow advertisers to make their advertisements more memorable and open the door for more engagement by the viewers in interpreting the metaphors. The results also reveal that culture-specific metaphors in food advertisements could be used to show viewers they are an important part of the advertising process.
Journal	Heliyon
Volume Number	9
PubMed Central reference number	PMC10149276
Issue Number	5
PubMed reference number	37131431
e-ISSN	24058440
DOI	10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15178
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier
Publisher Date	2023-04-20
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). © 2023 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Subject Keyword	Cognitive linguistics Semiotics Metaphor Modality Culture
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary