Syntax and Semantics

This page has works relating to the ways in which sequences of images create meaning.

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

Barber, John. 2002. The Phenomenon of Multiple Dialectics in Comics Layout. Masters Thesis, London College of Printing.

Bridgeman, Teresa. 2004. Keeping an eye on things: attention, tracking, and coherence-building. Belphégor 4 (1).

Christiansen, Hans-Christian. 2000. Comics and Film: A Narrative Perspective.In Comics and Culture

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

Cohn, Neil. 2003. A Time Frame of Mind: Visual Language and Buddhist Dharma Theory. Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, Vol. 31. Berkeley, CA

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

Cohn, Neil. 2005. Initial Refiner Projection: Movement and Binding in Visual Language. Emaki Productions

Cohn, Neil. 2005. A Force of Change. Emaki Productions

Cohn, Neil. 2005. A Visual Lexicon. 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

Estep, Joanna. 2006. Timing: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. www.newsrama.com

Fei, Victor Lim. 2006. The Visual Semantics Stratum: Making Meanings in Sequential Images. In T. Royce & W. Bowcher (Eds.). New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

Groensteen, Thierry. 2007. The System of Comics. Translated by B. Beaty and N. Nguyen: University of Mississippi Press

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

McCloud, Scott. 2000. Reinventing Comics. New York, NY: Paradox Press

Nakazawa, Jun, and Nakazawa, Sayuri. 1993. How Children Understand Comics?: Analysis of comic reading comprehension. Annual of Research in Early Childhood, Vol. 15. Pp. 35-39

Nakazawa, Jun. 2002. Analysis of manga (comic) reading processes: Manga literacy and eye movement during Manga reading. Manga Studies, Vol. 2, Pp. 39-49

Nakazawa, Jun. 2004. Manga (comic) literacy skills as determinant factors of manga story comprehension. Manga Studies, Vol. 5, Pp. 7-25

Narayan, Shweta. 1999. The Language of Comics: Metaphor in Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. UC Berkeley, Linguistics 106 class essay.

Narayan, Shweta. 2001. A Window on a Trail: The Metaphorical Structuring of Scott McCloud's Web-Comics. Paper presented at the Comic Arts Conference.

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

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

Saraceni, Mario. 2001. Relatedness: Aspects of Textual Connectivity in Comics. In The Graphic Novel. pp. 167-179

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

Tversky, Barbara, and Zacks, Jeffrey M. 2001. Event Structure in Perception and Conception. Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 127, No. 1. Pp. 3-21.

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

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