Comics as Communication A Functional Approach /

• Main Author: Davies, Paul Fisher (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
• Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc.; Communication.; Popular Culture.; Philology.; Linguistics.; Comics Studies.; Media and Communication.; Popular Culture .; Language and Literature.

This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It outlines a framework for describing the resources and practices of comics creation and readership, using an approach that is compatible with similar descriptions of linguistic and multimodal communication. The ap...