29.932, Confs: Cognitive Science, Linguistics & Literature/Poland

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Subject: 29.932, Confs: Cognitive Science, Linguistics & Literature/Poland

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 17:03:50
From: Anna Jelec [jelec at amu.edu.pl]
Subject: Cartoons and Comics

 
Cartoons and Comics 

Date: 24-Sep-2018 - 26-Sep-2018 
Location: Poznan, Poland 
Contact: Michał Szawerna 
Contact Email: michal.szawerna at uwr.edu.pl 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Ling & Literature 

Meeting Description: 

Whether or not cartoons and comics constitute distinct genres is a matter of
some controversy. While some scholars posit a clear-cut distinction between
them (Saraceni 2003), others declare, no less categorically, that “[c]omics
are a form of cartooning” (Waugh 1991 /1947/: 14). Adopting the latter stance,
in this session we wish to explore the two genres with the aim to show why
they are “intuitively interpreted on first encounter” (Miodrag 2013: 196).
Referring to their characteristic affordances (The two media are invariably
static and mute.), we will be analysing them as prime examples of visual
thinking (Arnheim 1969). 

Special attention will be given to two aspects of their interpretation. On the
one hand, we will focus on their characteristic expressive resources
(Forceville et al. 2014) — such as, for example, simplified as well as
exaggerated pictorial images of people and objects, intentionally meaningful
typography, balloonic representations of direct speech and thought (Forceville
2013), and context-dependent graphic flourishes dubbed pictorial runes
(Kennedy 1982). It will be argued that, as signs optimally suited to represent
their respective designata, such expressive resources, whose meanings are to a
considerable extent “coded” (Cohn 2013) greatly contribute to the intuitive
interpretation of cartoons and comics (Szawerna 2017). Equally important for
our discussion will be the way the visual and the verbal mode are integrated
(Górska 2017; Cornevin and Forceville 2017). We will show that the
characteristic form of their expressive resources as well as the integration
of verbal and the visual modes are both motivated by general cognition
(conceptual metaphors, conceptual metonymies, conceptual integration, etc.).
The two genres will be shown to afford spatialization of abstract concepts and
ideas in a creative way. Last but not least, their persuasive power
(Abdel-Raheem 2017) and their rhetorical functions will be the recurring
themes in this session.
 






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