Linguistics and the study of comics - Frank Bramlett

These questions and many more are answered in this volume, which
brings together the two fields of comics research and linguistics to produce
groundbreaking scholarship. With an international cast of contributors, the book
offers novel insights into the role of language in comics, graphic novels, and
single-panel cartoons, analyzing the intersections between the visual and the
verbal. Contributions examine the relationship between cognitive linguistics and
visual elements as well as interrogate the controversial claim about the status
of comics as a language. The book argues that comics tell us a great deal about
the sociocultural realities of language, exploring what code switching, language
contact, dialect, and linguistic variation can tell us about identity - from the
imagined and stereotyped to the political and real.