The Language of Comics (Intertext)

✍ Scribed by Mario Saraceni

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 121
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition, 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts.The Language of Comics: highly illustrated with large number of real comic strips provides a history of comics from the end of the nineteenth century to the present explores the 'semiotics of comics', from the interaction between the verbal and the visual and how texts interrelate to the way speech and thought are reported in narrative and point of view makes the case for comics as multi-modal texts and considers future developments in the genre is user friendly and accessible, and provides a full glossary.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 10
What are comics?......Page 12
How comic are comics?......Page 15
The components of comics......Page 16
The panel......Page 18
The gutter......Page 20
The caption......Page 21
Summary......Page 23
Words and pictures......Page 24
The blend between words and pictures......Page 25
Semiotics and the idea of the sign......Page 26
Looking at words......Page 29
The visual aspect of words in comics......Page 31
Reading pictures......Page 33
Pictures in comics......Page 36
The collaboration between words and pictures......Page 38
Summary......Page 44
Between the panels......Page 46
Cohesion......Page 47
Repetition......Page 48
Coherence......Page 56
Semantic field......Page 57
Inference: bridging the gaps......Page 62
Summary......Page 67
The voices of comics......Page 68
Who's speaking?......Page 70
Thought presentation: reading the characters' minds......Page 71
Voices in comics......Page 73
Thought balloons......Page 76
Summary......Page 80
The eyes of comics......Page 82
Deictics......Page 83
Summary......Page 95
Comics and computers......Page 96
Cartoons on your desktop?......Page 97
Words and comics......Page 103
Artists with mice......Page 105
Summary......Page 106
Answers and commentaries......Page 108
References and further reading......Page 114
Index of terms......Page 118

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Социолингвистика;