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A blog discussing the structure and cognition behind the visual language used in comics, it's relationship to language, along with other assorted topics on linguistics, art, communication, and graphic expression.
Neil Cohn
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- February 7, 2011
- 01:13 PM
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Review: Children Interpret a Comic
by Neil Cohn in The Visual Linguist
This insightful article examines children’s understandings of comic books over time using a Western comic A Gunman in Town!. The study looked at ten children in each of 3rd, 5th, and 8th grade, balanced for gender and race with diverse socio-economic status. They were shown each frame individually and asked its contents following each panel. This might not have hugely hampered the sequential understanding though, since the panels seem largely dominated by text.All the children recognized broad........ Read more »
Pallenik, M. (1976) A Gunman in Town! Children Interpret a Comic Book. Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, 3(1), 38-51. DOI: 10.1525/var.1976.3.1.38
- November 5, 2010
- 03:26 AM
- 256 views
Review: "Copying and Artistic Behaviors"
by Neil Cohn in The Visual Linguist
Smith argues that the negative views on "copying" demonstrated by art educators since the 50s is misplaced in some contexts. She claims that some forms of copying are good, and the relative value of copying is based on three factors: need, model, and process. She examines varying fields through use of a corpus of comics produced by American children, noting that themes and genres are copied greatly. She didn't find that the children copied the drawing style as much. My curiosity is whether this ........ Read more »
Smith, N. (1985) Copying and Artistic Behaviors: Children and Comic Strips. Studies in Art Education, 26(3), 147. DOI: 10.2307/1320320
- October 12, 2010
- 02:07 PM
- 412 views
Kid's sequential drawings
by Neil Cohn in The Visual Linguist
This is a summary/review of an article I thought had particularly compelling evidence for why understanding sequential images is a learned trait. Highlights are all mine...Narratives of urban Japanese children (manga) were compared to those of village Egyptian children. The argument was made that development differs based on graphically “rich” versus graphically “poor” environments. Egyptian ... Read more »
Wilson, Brent, & Wilson, Marjorie. (1987) Pictorial Composition and Narrative Structure: Themes and the Creation of Meaning in the Drawings of Egyptian and Japanese Children. Visual Arts Research, 13(2). info:/
- September 16, 2010
- 03:20 AM
- 359 views
Gestures in comics
by Neil Cohn in The Visual Linguist
A doubleshot of reviews**: Fein, Ofer, & Kasher, Asa (1996). How to do things with words and gestures in comics Journal of Pragmatics, 26 (6), 793-808 DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(96)00023-9This study looked at the role of gestures in comics (specifically, those in the European comic Asterix). The study had people interpret the meanings of both panels from the comics, and of photos where people took ... Read more »
Fein, Ofer, & Kasher, Asa. (1996) How to do things with words and gestures in comics. Journal of Pragmatics, 26(6), 793-808. DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(96)00023-9
- September 7, 2010
- 08:41 PM
- 299 views
Review: Brain damage and ordering of panels in comic strips
by Neil Cohn in The Visual Linguist
I recently reviewed an older study of brain damaged individual's comprehension of final-panel jokes in comic strips. Here's another paper that explores brain damage and the ordering of panels in sequences.Participants were asked to arrange scrambled parts of a story into their accurate order, and the authors compared the abilities of numerous types of brain damaged patients. Participants ... Read more »
Huber W, & Gleber J. (1982) Linguistic and nonlinguistic processing of narratives in aphasia. Brain and language, 16(1), 1-18. PMID: 7104674
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