Running through the Who, Where, and When: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Situational Changes in Comics

Autor/inn/en	Klomberg, Bien; Hacimusaoglu, Irmak; Cohn, Neil
Titel	Running through the Who, Where, and When: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Situational Changes in Comics
Quelle	In: Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 59 (2022) 9, S.669-684 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Klomberg, Bien) ORCID (Hacimusaoglu, Irmak) ORCID (Cohn, Neil)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0163-853X
DOI	10.1080/0163853X.2022.2106402
Schlagwörter	Cartoons; Content Analysis; Comparative Analysis; Foreign Countries; Semantics; Cross Cultural Studies; Reading Comprehension; Reading Strategies; Attention; United States; Europe; Asia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zeichentrickfilm; Inhaltsanalyse; Ausland; Semantik; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Leseverstehen; Reading strategy; Leselernstufe; Lesetechnik; Aufmerksamkeit; USA; Europa; Asien
Abstract	Understanding visual narratives requires readers to track dimensions of time, spatial location, and characters across a sequence. Previous work has found situational changes across adjacent panels differ cross-culturally, but few works have examined such situational dimensions across extended sequences. We therefore investigated situational "runs" -- uninterrupted sequences of the situational dimensions (time, space, characters) -- in a corpus of 300+ annotated comics from the United States, Europe, and Asia. We compared runs' proportion and average lengths and found that across books, semantic information changed frequently and run length correlated with proportion. Yet, cross-cultural patterns arose, with American and European comics using more continuous runs than Asian comics. American and European comics also used more and longer temporal and character continuity, while Asian comics used more spatial continuity. These findings raise questions about comprehenders' processing strategies of visual narratives across cultures and how general frameworks of visual narrative comprehension account for variations in situational (dis)continuity. (As Provided).
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