Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension

by Neil Cohn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350156043
• ISBN13: 9781350156043
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"