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Who Understands Comics?
Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension
Taschenbuch von Neil Cohn
Sprache: Englisch

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**Nominated for the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work**

Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But how transparent are they really, and how universally are they understood?

Combining recent advances from linguistics, cognitive science, and clinical psychology, this book argues that visual narratives involve greater complexity and require a lot more decoding than widely thought. Although increasingly used beyond the sphere of entertainment as materials in humanitarian, educational, and experimental contexts, Neil Cohn demonstrates that their universal comprehension cannot be assumed. Instead, understanding a visual language requires a fluency that is contingent on exposure and practice with a graphic system. Bringing together a rich but scattered literature on how people comprehend, and learn to comprehend, a sequence of images, this book coalesces research from a diverse range of fields into a broader interdisciplinary view of visual narrative to ask: Who Understands Comics?
**Nominated for the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work**

Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But how transparent are they really, and how universally are they understood?

Combining recent advances from linguistics, cognitive science, and clinical psychology, this book argues that visual narratives involve greater complexity and require a lot more decoding than widely thought. Although increasingly used beyond the sphere of entertainment as materials in humanitarian, educational, and experimental contexts, Neil Cohn demonstrates that their universal comprehension cannot be assumed. Instead, understanding a visual language requires a fluency that is contingent on exposure and practice with a graphic system. Bringing together a rich but scattered literature on how people comprehend, and learn to comprehend, a sequence of images, this book coalesces research from a diverse range of fields into a broader interdisciplinary view of visual narrative to ask: Who Understands Comics?
Über den Autor
Neil Cohnis Associate Professor of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is the author of The Visual Language of Comics (2013), Who Understands Comics? (2020), and editor of The Visual Narrative Reader (2016).
Zusammenfassung
Outlines the most complete and sophisticated framework of visual narrative comprehension to date
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. An Assumption of Universality
2. Comprehending Visual Narratives
3. Cross-cultural Diversity of Visual Languages
4. Cross-cultural Comprehension of Visual Languages
5. Development of Visual Narrative Comprehension
6. Variation Between Fluent Comprehenders
7. Visual Narrative Comprehension in Clinical Populations
8. Graphic Narratives and Filmed Narratives
9. Visual Language Fluency
References
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350156043
ISBN-10: 1350156043
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cohn, Neil
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 233 x 154 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Neil Cohn
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2020
Gewicht: 0,427 kg
Artikel-ID: 118199449
Über den Autor
Neil Cohnis Associate Professor of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is the author of The Visual Language of Comics (2013), Who Understands Comics? (2020), and editor of The Visual Narrative Reader (2016).
Zusammenfassung
Outlines the most complete and sophisticated framework of visual narrative comprehension to date
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. An Assumption of Universality
2. Comprehending Visual Narratives
3. Cross-cultural Diversity of Visual Languages
4. Cross-cultural Comprehension of Visual Languages
5. Development of Visual Narrative Comprehension
6. Variation Between Fluent Comprehenders
7. Visual Narrative Comprehension in Clinical Populations
8. Graphic Narratives and Filmed Narratives
9. Visual Language Fluency
References
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350156043
ISBN-10: 1350156043
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cohn, Neil
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 233 x 154 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Neil Cohn
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2020
Gewicht: 0,427 kg
Artikel-ID: 118199449
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