Khari’s Reviews > Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension > Status Update

I've still got all the T-Ws to work through in this bibliography and I've already gotten 78 additional references to check out from it...

10 minutes to get through 2 pages...well, it is just mining the references, so I suppose that's to be expected.

The Sequential Image Transparency Assumption has potentially held back research, because it also presumes a lack of complex structure, a lack of organizational patterns, and/or an ease of comprehension. Together, these presumptions stymie the idea that visual languages have a need to be studied in the first place, because why would one need to investigate something so simple?

...but of cross-modal translation of the narrative structure from the visual to the verbal modality. This would account for why children have more coherent narratives in these tasks with visual narratives than when they tell original stories, because the visual narratives provide a coherent structure to translate rather than derive from scratch."

"Narrative elicitation tasks also may mischaracterize what such narration indexes in the first place. In these tasks, participants read through a wordless visual narrative and narrate what they see, and the produced verbal language is then analyzed for its narrative qualities. However, the visual materials themselves also have a narrative structure, meaning that this task is not one of verbal narrative production...