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  • Dispelling emoji myths

    Dispelling emoji myths

    In my recent BBC article and my blog posts about emoji, I have tried to explain how emoji are not an emerging language, but that they do serve important functions that resemble other […]

  • New Paper: Narrative Conjunction’s Junction Function

    I’m excited to announce that my new paper, “Narrative Conjunction’s Junction Function” is now out in the Journal of Pragmatics! This is the first major theoretical paper I’ve had in […]

  • Emoji and visual languages

    I’m excited that my recent article on the BBC website about emoji has gotten such a good response. So, I figured I’d write an addendum here on my blog to […]

  • New paper: Getting a cue before getting a clue

    It seems the last few months on this blog have been all about inference generation… I’m happy to say this post is also the case! I’m excited to announce that […]

  • Inference generating comic panels

    Since my last post discussed my new paper on action stars, I thought it would be worth doing a refresher on these types of panels in the visual language of […]

  • New paper: Action starring narrative and events

    Waaaay back in 2008 I first posted about a phenomenon in comics that I called an “action star”, such as the third panel in this sequence: I argued that these […]

  • Comicology conference in Japan

    For anyone who might happen to be in Japan at the end of next month, I’ll be speaking at Kyoto Seika University’s upcoming conference, Comicology: Probing Practical Scholarship from September […]

  • Comic reading fluency

    At my ComicCon panel, someone asked me whether I have a measure for comic reading experience. Indeed, I do! I’ve been using the Visual Language Fluency Index (VLFI) score which […]

  • Comic-Con 2015: The Scientific Study of The Visual Language of Comics

    Thanks to my good friend Dan Christensen, I here present my talk from Comic-Con 2015, “The Scientific Study of The Visual Language of Comics.” This was my introductory talk for […]

  • ComicCon 2015 postscript

    As always, I had a great time at ComicCon this year! I thought my panel on “The scientific study of the visual language of comics” went great, and I greatly […]