32.821, Books: Who Understands Comics?: Cohn

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Subject: 32.821, Books: Who Understands Comics?: Cohn

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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:56:09
From: Khadija Ahmed [khadija.ahmed at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Who Understands Comics?: Cohn

 


Title: Who Understands Comics? 
Subtitle: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/who-understands-comics-9781350156043/ 


Author: Neil Cohn

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350156050 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 22.49
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350156067 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 22.49
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350156036 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781350156043 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 24.99


Abstract:

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?"
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Psycholinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=151093




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