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Who Understands Comics? Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension

Paperback • 2020 • English

Who Understands Comics? Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension

By Neil Cohn

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About the book

Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But how transparent are they really, and how universally are they understood? Combining recent advances from linguistics, cognitive science, and clinical psychology, this book argues that visual narratives involve greater complexity and require a lot more decoding than widely thought. Although increasingly used beyond the sphere of entertainment as materials in humanitarian...Show more

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ISBN

9781350156043

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Published year

2020

Language

English

Original title

Who Understands Comics? Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension

Format

Paperback

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