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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484230903321

Autore

Davies Paul Fisher

Titolo

Comics as Communication : A Functional Approach / / by Paul Fisher Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030297220

3030297225

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels, , 2634-6389

Disciplina

741.59

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc - Influence on mass media

Communication

Popular culture

Language and languages - Style

Comics Studies

Media and Communication

Popular Culture

Stylistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 approach is based largely on the work of Michael Halliday, drawing also on the pragmatics of Paul Grice, the Text World Theory of Paul Werth and Joanna Gavins, and ideas from art



theory, psychology and narratology. This brings a broad Hallidayan framework of multimodal analysis to comics scholarship, and plays a part in extending that tradition of multimodal linguistics to graphic narrative.