The visual narrative reader / edited by Neil Cohn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohn, Neil, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics--Psychological aspects.

Semiotics.

Visual literacy.

Visual education.

Readers.

Sequence (Linguistics).

Cognition.

Psycholinguistics.

Literacitet.

Local Subjects:

Literacitet.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Summary:

"Sequential images are as natural at conveying narratives as verbal language, and have appeared throughout human history, from cave paintings and tapestries right through to modern comics. Contemporary research on this visual language of sequential images has been scattered across several fields: linguistics, psychology, anthropology, art education, comics studies, and others. Only recently has this disparate research begun to be incorporated into a coherent understanding. In The Visual Narrative Reader, Neil Cohn collects chapters that cross these disciplinary divides from many of the foremost international researchers who explore fundamental questions about visual narratives. How does the style of images impact their understanding? How are metaphors and complex meanings conveyed by images? How is meaning understood across sequential images? How do children produce and comprehend sequential images? Are visual narratives beneficial for education and literacy? Do visual narrative systems differ across cultures and historical time periods? This book provides a foundation of research for readers to engage in these fundamental questions and explore the most vital thinking about visual narrative. It collects important papers and introduces review chapters summarizing the literature on specific approaches to understanding visual narratives. The result is a comprehensive "reader" that can be used as a resource to researchers, a supplement to courses, and a broad overview of fascinating topics to for anyone interested in the growing field of the visual language of comics and visual narratives"-- Provided by publisher.

"Not all narrative is textual. Images, sequential or non-sequential, have made meaning and told stories since the first cave art and through to the latest 3D movies. This book understands that analyzing this form of narrative is important and fundamental to a complete theory of discourse. Cohn's Visual Narrative Reader explores many forms of image-based narratives. It shows how meaning and sequence is produced and how to approach the discourse analysis involved. Contemporary research on the visual language of sequential images have been scattered across several disciplines: linguistics, psychology, anthropology, art education, and others. Only recently has this disparate research begun to be incorporated into a coherent discipline. This book collects classic and important papers from across disciplinary divides about the comprehension of sequential images, as well as introducing review chapters summarizing the literature from specific approaches to understanding visual narratives. The result is a comprehensive reader that can be used as a resource to researchers, a supplement to courses, and a broad overview of fascinating topics to anyone interested in this growing field studying the visual language of comics and visual narratives"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Visual Narrative / Neil Cohn Cohn, Neil 1

1 Introduction 1

2 Visual language theory 2

3 Studying visual narratives 4

4 Onwards and upwards 12

References 12

Part I Theoretical Approaches to Sequential Images

2 Linguistically Oriented Comics Research in Germany / Janina Wildfeuer Wildfeuer, Janina, John Bateman Bateman, John 19

1 Introduction 19

2 Orienting concepts 21

3 A broadly chronological review 25

4 A brief critical evaluation of the story so far 55

5 Conclusions and future directions 57

Acknowledgements 60

Notes 60

References 61

3 No Content without Form: Graphic Style as the Primary Entrance to a Story / Pascal Lefèvre Lefèvre, Pascal 67

1 Introduction 67

2 The nature of drawings 68

3 Biological foundations of the efficiency of line drawing for human visual perception 70

4 From strokes to style 72

5 A model to study graphic style 74

6 Conclusion 81

Notes 82

References 83

4 Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Blending Theory, and Other Cognitivist Perspectives on Comics / Charles Forceville Forceville, Charles 89

1 Introduction 89

2 Conceptual metaphor theory, blending theory, image schemas and the embodied mind 91

3 Studies on cartoons drawing on CL, CMT and BT 95

4 Studies on comics drawing on CL, CMT and BT 100

5 Other pertinent cognitivist approaches 107

6 Concluding remarks and further research 109

Acknowledgement 109

Note 110

References 110

5 Relatedness: Aspects of Textual Connectivity in Comics / Mario Saraceni Saraceni, Mario 115

1 Aims of the chapter 115

2 Theoretical background 116

3 Towards a linguistic-visual and textual-cognitive model of relatedness 119

4 Conclusion 126

Notes 126

References 126

6 A Little Cohesion between Friends; Or, We're Just Exploring Our Textuality: Reconciling Cohesion in Written Language and Visual Language / Eric Stainbrook Stainbrook, Eric 129

1 Introduction 130

2 Cohesion m written language 131

3 Cohesion in visual language art 135

4 Cohesion in visual language revisited 137

5 Cohesion through writing in visual language: framed and graphic text 139

6 Cohesion through writing in visual language: dialogue balloons 141

7 Cohesion through writing in visual language: captions 148

8 Discussion 150

References 153

Part II Psychology and Development of Visual Narrative

7 Manga Literacy and Manga Comprehension in Japanese Children / Jun Nakazawa Nakazawa, Jun 157

1 Introduction 158

2 Literacy for manga drawing and reading 160

3 Relation between manga reading literacy and story comprehension 170

4 Eye-tracking behaviour with manga reading 171

5 A cognitive processing model of manga reading comprehension 173

6 Applications of manga 175

7 Conclusion 179

Acknowledgement 179

References 180

8 What Happened and What Happened Next: Kids' Visual Narratives across Cultures / Brent Wilson Wilson, Brent 185

1 Child art versus visual narrative 186

2 Why do kids make visual narratives? 188

3 Case studies of visual narrative and artistic giftedness 189

4 Elicited sequential narratives: within and across cultural studies 191

5 Cross-cultural studies, visual narrative themes and compositional modes in Australia, Egypt, Finland and the United States 191

6 Story-drawing themes, compositions, and styles in a Giza village and Cairo moderate-income and wealthy neighbourhoods 193

7 Visual narrative worlds without end: tales from Japan 206

8 Manga characters and how to be Japanese 207

9 A nation of visual narrators: distributed pedagogy 218

10 The end - for now 221

Notes 223

References 225

Part III Visual Narratives across Cultures

9 The Walbiri Sand Story / Nancy Munn Munn, Nancy 231

1 Tire sand story 232

2 Vocabulary 233

3 The flow of graphic scenes in storytelling 237

4 Types of scenes 240

5 Scene cycling and narrative content 241

6 Figure types and story contexts 243

7 Discussion 249

Notes 250

References 251

10 Alternative Representations of Space: Arrernte Narratives in Sand / David P. Wilkins Wilkins, David P. 253

1 Introduction 253

2 The spatial properties of sand drawing 255

3 The child's acquisition of sand-drawing conventions 265

4 Narrative behaviour with accompanying drawings 275

5 Conclusion 276

Acknowledgements 278

Notes 278

References 280

11 Sequential Text-Image Pairing among the Classic Maya / Søren Wichmann Wichmann, Søren, Jesper Nielsen Nielsen, Jesper 283

1 Introduction 283

2 The cultural context and media of Maya text-image pairings 284

3 Sequential text-image pairing as a new subcategory of conjoined text and image 286

4 The organization of images 289

5 Narrative sequentiality in Maya imagery 291

6 Determining the directional decoding of sequential text-image pairing 294

7 Tire techniques and idioms of Maya sequential art 296

8 A sample analysis: the'Regal Bunny Pot' (K1398) 304

9 Conclusions 306

Acknowledgements 307

Notes 308

References 309

12 Linguistic Relativity and Conceptual Permeability in visual Narratives: New Distinctions in the Relationship between Language(s) and Thought / Neil Cohn Cohn, Neil 315

1 Introduction 316

2 Permeability and relativity in basic lexical items 322

3 Conceptual metaphor 324

4 Paths and motion events 325

5 Windowing of attention 330

6 Spatial orientation 334

7 Conclusion 336

Acknowledgements 336

Notes 336

References 337.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472577900

1472577906

9781472585592

1472585593

OCLC:

919068102

Publisher Number:

40025793257

Online:

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