Early
Writings on Visual Language
Table
of Contents
 Preface...
7
1. A Declaration of Independence: Separating “Comics”
and Visual Language ... 9
2. Photology and Morphology ... 15
3. Transitional Syntax ... 27
3.1. Visual language formatives ... 27
3.2. Transitions ... 29
3.3. Transition Relationships ... 35
3.4. Comparative Streaming ... 40
4. Web Diagrams: An analysis of transitional syntax ...
49
5. Bimodality of Thought: The Interaction of Text and Visual Language
... 60
6. Visual Syntactic Structures: Towards a Generative Grammar of
Visual Language
Part I: Revisiting Transitional
Syntax ...65
6.1. Transitional Syntax ... 66
6.2. Results and Revisions ... 68
6.3. An Alternative Perspective in a Traditional Field ... 74
7. Visual Syntactic Structures: Towards a Generative Grammar
of Visual Language
Part II: Generative Visual Language Syntax
7.1. Phrase Structures ... 77
7.2. Lexical Items ... 81
7.3. Embedding Principles ... 86
7.4.Transformations ... 92
7.5. Sentences ... 100
7.6. Conclusion ... 104
8. Visual Language Acquisition: Towards a field of study
8.1. The Great Debates ... 105
8.2 Considerations for Future Scholarship ... 109
8.3. Conclusion ... 111
9. Appendix: Generative Principles ...112
Acknowledgements ... 115
References ... 116
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