- Offers a substantial, comprehensive and theoretically-based framework for writing and thinking about comicsServes as the first text to present a theory of comics based upon multimodal systemic-functional linguisticsIncludes extensive use of illustrative materials ranging from comics materials to graphs and charts
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-32
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Prelude: ‘Animating’ the Narrative in Abstract Comics
Pages 33-61
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Representing Processes in Graphic Narrative
Pages 63-95
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Games Comics Play: Interpersonal Interaction in Graphic Narrative
Pages 97-131
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Abstraction and the Interpersonal in Graphic Narrative
Pages 133-168
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Comics as Communication
- Book Subtitle
- A Functional Approach
- Authors
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- Paul Fisher Davies
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-29722-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-29722-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-29721-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 338
- Number of Illustrations
- 40 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
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