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

Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for...
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Author: Neil Cohn
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Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension by Cohn, Neil

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

Dhs. 1,005.25

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

Dhs. 1,005.25
Author: Neil Cohn
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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, educational, and experimental contexts, Neil Cohn demonstrates that their universal comprehension cannot be assumed. Instead, understanding a visual language requires a fluency that is contingent on exposure and practice with a graphic system. Bringing together a rich but scattered literature on how people comprehend, and learn to comprehend, a sequence of images, this book coalesces research from a diverse range of fields into a broader interdisciplinary view of visual narrative to ask: Who Understands Comics?

Author: Neil Cohn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 11/12/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781350156036

About the Author
Neil Cohn is Associate Professor of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is the author of The Visual Language of Comics (2013) and editor of The Visual Narrative Reader (2016).

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