“…Furthermore, the different multimodal forms of staging can not only orchestrate affectivity but as well create embodied meanings, e.g., through figurative thought and multimodal metaphors (see Kappelhoff and Müller 2011;Schmitt, Greifenstein, and Kappelhoff this volume). Especially concerning the use of language, clear differences become obvious: In television news reports, speech predominates over audio-visual staging, with the effect that the visuals often are perceived as mere illustrations, as doublings of the spoken word.…”