The visual narrative reader

Machine generated contents note: 1.Interdisciplinary Approaches to Visual Narrative / Neil Cohn

1.Introduction

2.Visual language theory

3.Studying visual narratives

4.Onwards and upwards

References

pt. I Theoretical Approaches to Sequential Images

2.Linguistically Oriented Comics Research in Germany / John Bateman

1.Introduction

2.Orienting concepts

3.A broadly chronological review

4.A brief critical evaluation of the story so far

5.Conclusions and future directions

Acknowledgements

Notes

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3.No Content without Form: Graphic Style as the Primary Entrance to a Story / Pascal Lefevre

1.Introduction

2.The nature of drawings

3.Biological foundations of the efficiency of line drawing for human visual perception

4.From strokes to style

5.A model to study graphic style

6.Conclusion

Notes

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4.Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Blending Theory, and Other Cognitivist Perspectives on Comics / Charles Forceville

1.Introduction

2.Conceptual metaphor theory, blending theory, image schemas and the embodied mind

3.Studies on cartoons drawing on CL, CMT and BT

4.Studies on comics drawing on CL, CMT and BT

5.Other pertinent cognitivist approaches

6.Concluding remarks and further research

Acknowledgement

Note

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5.Relatedness: Aspects of Textual Connectivity in Comics / Mario Saraceni

1.Aims of the chapter

2.Theoretical background

3.Towards a linguistic-visual and textual-cognitive model of relatedness

4.Conclusion

Notes

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6.A Little Cohesion between Friends; Or, We're Just Exploring Our Textuality: Reconciling Cohesion in Written Language and Visual Language / Eric Stainbrook

1.Introduction

2.Cohesion in written language

3.Cohesion in visual language art

4.Cohesion in visual language revisited

5.Cohesion through writing in visual language: framed and graphic text

6.Cohesion through writing in visual language: dialogue balloons

7.Cohesion through writing in visual language: captions

8.Discussion

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pt. II Psychology and Development of Visual Narrative

7.Manga Literacy and Manga Comprehension in Japanese Children / Jun Nakazawa

1.Introduction

2.Literacy for manga drawing and reading

3.Relation between manga reading literacy and story comprehension

4.Eye-tracking behaviour with manga reading

5.A cognitive processing model of manga reading comprehension

6.Applications of manga

7.Conclusion

Acknowledgement

References

8.What Happened and What Happened Next: Kids' Visual Narratives across Cultures / Brent Wilson

1.Child art versus visual narrative

2.Why do kids make visual narratives?

3.Case studies of visual narrative and artistic giftedness

4.Elicited sequential narratives: within and across cultural studies

5.Cross-cultural studies, visual narrative themes and compositional modes in Australia, Egypt, Finland and the United States

6.Story-drawing themes, compositions, and styles in a Giza village and Cairo moderate-income and wealthy neighbourhoods

7.Visual narrative worlds without end: tales from Japan

8.Manga characters and how to be Japanese

9.A nation of visual narrators: distributed pedagogy

10.The end

for now

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pt. III Visual Narratives across Cultures

9.The Walbiri Sand Story / Nancy Munn

1.The sand story

2.Vocabulary

3.The flow of graphic scenes in storytelling

4.Types of scenes

5.Scene cycling and narrative content

6.Figure types and story contexts

7.Discussion

Notes

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10.Alternative Representations of Space: Arrernte Narratives in Sand / David P. Wilkins

1.Introduction

2.The spatial properties of sand drawing

3.The child's acquisition of sand-drawing conventions

4.Narrative behaviour with accompanying drawings

5.Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Notes

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11.Sequential Text-Image Pairing among the Classic Maya / Jesper Nielsen

1.Introduction

2.The cultural context and media of Maya text-image pairings

3.Sequential text-image pairing as a new subcategory of conjoined text and image

4.The organization of images

5.Narrative sequentiality in Maya imagery

6.Determining the directional decoding of sequential text-image pairing

7.The techniques and idioms of Maya sequential art

8.A sample analysis: the ̀Regal Bunny Pot' (K1398)

9.Conclusions

Acknowledgements

Notes

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12.Linguistic Relativity and Conceptual Permeability in Visual Narratives: New Distinctions in the Relationship between Language(s) and Thought / Neil Cohn

1.Introduction

2.Permeability and relativity in basic lexical items

3.Conceptual metaphor

4.Paths and motion events

5.Windowing of attention

6.Spatial orientation

7.Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Notes

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