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The Visual Language of Comics
Introduction to the Structure and Cognition of Sequential Images
Taschenbuch von Neil Cohn
Sprache: Englisch
Originalsprache: Englisch

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Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this fundamental part of human identity, little work has explored the comprehension and cognitive underpinnings of visual narratives-until now.

This work presents a provocative theory: that drawings and sequential images are structured the same as language. Building on contemporary theories from linguistics and cognitive psychology, it argues that comics are written in a visual language of sequential images that combines with text. Like spoken and signed languages, visual narratives use a lexicon of systematic patterns stored in memory, strategies for combining these patterns into meaningful units, and a hierarchic grammar governing the combination of sequential images into coherent expressions. Filled with examples and illustrations, this book details each of these levels of structure, explains how cross-cultural differences arise in diverse visual languages of the world, and describes what the newest neuroscience research reveals about the brain's comprehension of visual narratives. From this emerges the foundation for a new line of research within the linguistic and cognitive sciences, raising intriguing questions about the connections between language and the diversity of humans' expressive behaviours in the mind and brain.
Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this fundamental part of human identity, little work has explored the comprehension and cognitive underpinnings of visual narratives-until now.

This work presents a provocative theory: that drawings and sequential images are structured the same as language. Building on contemporary theories from linguistics and cognitive psychology, it argues that comics are written in a visual language of sequential images that combines with text. Like spoken and signed languages, visual narratives use a lexicon of systematic patterns stored in memory, strategies for combining these patterns into meaningful units, and a hierarchic grammar governing the combination of sequential images into coherent expressions. Filled with examples and illustrations, this book details each of these levels of structure, explains how cross-cultural differences arise in diverse visual languages of the world, and describes what the newest neuroscience research reveals about the brain's comprehension of visual narratives. From this emerges the foundation for a new line of research within the linguistic and cognitive sciences, raising intriguing questions about the connections between language and the diversity of humans' expressive behaviours in the mind and brain.
Über den Autor
Neil Cohn is an internationally recognized scholar for his research on the overlap of sequential images and language in cognition. He is the author of Early Writings on Visual Language and Meditations.
Zusammenfassung
Outlines the most complete and sophisticated model of visual narrative to date.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1. Introducing Visual Language

SECTION 1: STRUCTURE OF VISUAL LANGUAGE

Chapter 2. The Visual Lexicon, Part 1: Visual morphology

Chapter 3. The Visual Lexicon, Part 2: Panels and Constructions

Chapter 4. Visual Language Grammar: Narrative Structure

Chapter 5. Navigation of External Compositional Structure

Chapter 6. Cognition of Visual Language

SECTION 2: VISUAL LANGUAGE ACROSS THE WORLD

Chapter 7. American Visual Language

Chapter 8. Japanese Visual Language

Chapter 9. Central Australian Visual Language

Chapter 10. The Principle of Equivalence
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 221
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781441181459
ISBN-10: 1441181458
Sprache: Englisch
Originalsprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cohn, Neil
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Abbildungen: 81
Maße: 233 x 154 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Neil Cohn
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.12.2013
Gewicht: 0,417 kg
preigu-id: 105737859
Über den Autor
Neil Cohn is an internationally recognized scholar for his research on the overlap of sequential images and language in cognition. He is the author of Early Writings on Visual Language and Meditations.
Zusammenfassung
Outlines the most complete and sophisticated model of visual narrative to date.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1. Introducing Visual Language

SECTION 1: STRUCTURE OF VISUAL LANGUAGE

Chapter 2. The Visual Lexicon, Part 1: Visual morphology

Chapter 3. The Visual Lexicon, Part 2: Panels and Constructions

Chapter 4. Visual Language Grammar: Narrative Structure

Chapter 5. Navigation of External Compositional Structure

Chapter 6. Cognition of Visual Language

SECTION 2: VISUAL LANGUAGE ACROSS THE WORLD

Chapter 7. American Visual Language

Chapter 8. Japanese Visual Language

Chapter 9. Central Australian Visual Language

Chapter 10. The Principle of Equivalence
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 221
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781441181459
ISBN-10: 1441181458
Sprache: Englisch
Originalsprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cohn, Neil
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Abbildungen: 81
Maße: 233 x 154 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Neil Cohn
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.12.2013
Gewicht: 0,417 kg
preigu-id: 105737859
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