Multimodality

This page has works relating to the ways in which text and image connect and interact.

If you have any works to add, please email me.

Abbott, Lawrence L.1986. Comic Art: Characteristics and Potentialities of a Narrative Medium. Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 19.4, p. 155-176. Bowling Green, Ohio: BG State University

Bongco, Mila. 2000. Reading Comics: Language, Culture, and the Concept of the Superhero in Comic Books. New York, NY: Garland Publishing Inc.

Bresman, Jonathan. 2004. Test of Sequential “Sense” of Comics. Teachers College, Columbia University. Class Essay: MSTU 5510.008: Social and Communicative Aspects of the Internet and Other ICTs

Ceglia, Simonetta, and Caldesi Valeri, Valerio. 2002. Maison Ikkoku. Image [&] Narrative, Vol. 1.1.

Clegg, Mark. 1978. Understanding Comics. B.A. in Comics Art with Honors. University of California, Santa Cruz.

Cohn, Neil. 2003. Early Writings on Visual Language. Berkeley, CA: Emaki Productions

Cohn, Neil. 2003. Interfaces and Interactions: A Study of Bimodality. Emaki Productions

Dean, Michael. 2000. The Ninth Art: Traversing the Cultural Space of the American Comic Book. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Duncan, Randy. 1999-2000. Toward a Theory of Comic Book Communication. In Fudge, Keith & Lloyd, Michael R. (Eds). Academic Forum Online No. 17. Henderson State University

Eisner, Will. 1985. Comics & Sequential Art. Florida: Poorhouse Press

Fein, Ofer, and Kasher, Asa. 1996. How to do Things with Words and Gestures in Comics. Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 26.6. Pp. 793-808

Hünig, Wolfgang K. 2002. British and German Political Cartoons as Weapons in WWI. Paper presented at the International Symposium of Manipulation in the Totalitarian Ideologies of the Twentieth Century.

Magnussen, Anne. 2000. The Semiotics of C.S. Peirce as a Theoretical Framework for the Understanding of Comics. In Comics and Culture

McCloud, Scott. 1993. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. New York, NY: Harper Collins Inc

Murray, Chris. 1997. Reading Comics: Narrative and Visual Discourse in Comic Art. Paper Presented at the Scottish Word and Image Group conference.

Nakazawa, Jun. 2005. Development of Manga (Comic Book) Literacy in Children. Shwalb, David W (Ed); Nakazawa, Jun (Ed); Shwalb, Barbara J (Ed). Applied developmental psychology: Theory, practice, and research from Japan. Pp. 23-42

Natsume, Fusanosuke. 1997. Manga wa naze omoshiroi no ka [Why are Manga Fascinating?: Their visual idioms and grammar]. Tokyo: NHK Library

Pallenik, Michael J. 1986. A Gunman in Town! Children Interpret a Comic Book. Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, Vol. 3, No. 1. Pp. 38-51

Raecke Jochen. 1999. Using Comics as Data for Research into the Connection between Pointing Gestures and Deictics. In E. André, M. Poesio, and H. Rieser (eds). Proceedings of the Workshop on Deixis, Demonstration, and Deictic Belief at ESSLLI XI.

Saraceni, Mario. 2000. Language Beyond Language: Comics as verbo-visual texts. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Nottingham

Saraceni, Mario. 2003. The Language of Comics. New York, NY: Routelage

Stainbrook, Eric J. 2003. Reading Comics: A Theoretical Analysis of Textuality and Discourse in the Comics Medium. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Weber, Heinz J. 1989. Elements of Text-Based and Image-Based Connectedness in Comic Stories, and Some Analogies to Cinema and Written Text. In M. Conte, J. Petofi, & E. Sozer (eds). Text and Connectedness: Proceedings of the Conference on Connexity and Coherence, Urbino, Italy, July 16-21 1984. Pp. 337-360

Wellman, Henry M., Hollander, Michelle, and Schult, Carolyn A. 1996. Young Children’s Understanding of Thought Bubbles and Thoughts. Child Development, Vol. 67, p. 768-788

Yannicopoulou, Angela. 2004. Visual Aspects of Written Texts: Preschoolers View Comics. L1- Educational Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. 4, pp. 169-181

Yus Ramos, Francisco. 1998. Relevance Theory and Media Discourse: A Verbal-Visual Model of Communication. Poetics, Vol. 25. Pp. 293-309

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