Overview
- Offers a substantial, comprehensive and theoretically-based framework for writing and thinking about comics
- Serves as the first text to present a theory of comics based upon multimodal systemic-functional linguistics
- Includes extensive use of illustrative materials ranging from comics materials to graphs and charts
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Paul Fisher Davies gained his Ph.D. at University of Sussex, where he has also been a lecturer and student mentor. He teaches English Language and Literature at East Sussex College in Lewes, UK. As well as studying and writing about comics form, he creates graphic narrative stories and scholarship.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Comics as Communication
Book Subtitle: A Functional Approach
Authors: Paul Fisher Davies
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29722-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29721-3Published: 18 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29724-4Published: 18 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29722-0Published: 07 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6370
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 338
Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comics Studies, Media and Communication, Popular Culture, Language and Literature