TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davies, Paul Fisher
TI  - Comics as communication: : a functional approach
T2  - Palgrave studies in comics and graphic novels
SN  - 9783030297213
U1  - 741.59 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Switzerland
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Graphic novels
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc.--Dialogue
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Communication
N2  - About this book
This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It outlines a framework for describing the resources and practices of comics creation and readership, using an approach that is compatible with similar descriptions of linguistic and multimodal communication.
The approach is based largely on the work of Michael Halliday, drawing also on the pragmatics of Paul Grice, the Text World Theory of Paul Werth and Joanna Gavins, and ideas from art theory, psychology and narratology. This brings a broad Hallidayan framework of multimodal analysis to comics scholarship, and plays a part in extending that tradition of multimodal linguistics to graphic narrative
ER  -