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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Prelude: 'Animating' the narrative in abstract comics
• 3. Representing Processes in Graphic Narrative
• 4. Games Comics Play: Interpersonal Interaction in Graphic Narrative
• 5. Abstraction and the Interpersonal in Graphic Narrative
• 6. Cohesion and the Textuality of Comics
• 7. The Logical Structures of Comics: Hypotaxis, Parataxis and Text Worlds
• 8. Coda: Metaphor, magic and making meanings
• 9. Conclusion.