The following is a pre-print version of a paper that has been published as: Górska, Elżďieta. ϮϬϭ4. "Why are multimodal metaphors interesting? The perspective of verbo-visual and verbo-musical modalities". In Kuźniak, Marek, Liďura, Agnieszka and MiĐhał Szawerna ;eds.Ϳ. From Conceptual Metaphor Theory to Cognitive Ethnolinguistics. Patterns of Imagery in Language. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 17- 36. If you want to quote from it verbatim, please check the published version (EG, February 2018). Why are multimodal metaphors interesting? The perspective of verbo-visual and verbo-musical modalities Elżbieta Górska University of Warsaw, Poland Abstract The article discusses advantages of taking a multimodal metaphor perspective not only for metaphor research, but also for studies of linguistic attention, information flow and of general issues pertaining to language and cognition. The examples come from newspaper cartoons, ads, gesture studies, Barenboim’s (2006) lectures on life and music, and Wender’s (2011) film Pina. A practical application of Müller’s (2008a) multimodal metaphor theory in a technique of psychotherapy known as the Dance Movement Therapy (Kolter et al. 2012) is also presented. Keywords: multimodal metaphor, thinking for multimodal communication, iconicity, attention 1. Introduction Arguing that they provide not only a descriptively and theoretically revealing research area, but also a ground for new practical application of the metaphor theory, this paper discusses metaphors that crosscut different modalities. First, against the background of standard analyses of mono-modal metaphors presented within the framework of the Lakovian-Johnsonian Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT; Lakoff & Johnson 1980, 1999) in section 2.1, a sample of multimodal metaphors is considered (section 2.2), which will function as the leitmotif data throughout the discussion in section 3. It will be argued that the multimodal perspective puts a number of recurring questions of metaphor theory in a new light and provides insightful ideas which await further studies; among them the questions of the nature of metaphor and of its communicative and cognitive functions return in a new guise. Likewise, numerous general issues that have been raised by cognitive linguists are now likely to gain a new momentum; of these, I would briefly take up Dan Slobin’s (1987) hypothesis known as thinking for