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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]