G, Sarita

Pictures that Speak : A Compendious Study of the Poly-Semiotic Visual Language of Comics (Journal Article) - Chennai : English Language Teachers' Association of India , 2022 - 11-19p. - Journal of English Language Teaching , Volume 64 Number 1 : January - February 2022 .

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Abstract: Previously dismissed as an escapist reading matter, comics have evolved from a temporary novelty to a very dominant visual form of modern popular culture worldwide. They have later on come to be treated as serious literature that reveals a lot about the culture and other aspects related to it. Comics have a language of their own- the language of visual art. The paper makes an effort to study it as a separate and distinguishable genre, providing an illuminating discussion on the relationship between words and pictures.

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comics | visual language | layout | image-text relation | representation | format