The vocabulary of manga: Visual morphology in dialects of Japanese Visual Language
The vocabulary of manga: Visual morphology in dialects of Japanese Visual Language
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DOI：
10.1016/j.pragma.2015.11.008
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发表时间：
2016-01-01
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1.6
通讯作者：
Ehly, Sean
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作者：
Cohn, Neil;Ehly, Sean
世界漫画中非标志性元素的视觉呈现往往具有多样且有趣的形式，比如日本漫画中人物好色时会流鼻血，睡觉时鼻子会冒出气泡。我们认为，这些图形模式属于日本视觉叙事中所使用的一种更广泛的“日本视觉语言”的“视觉词汇”。我们的研究首先对日本漫画中73种常规化的图形模式进行了描述和分类，然后利用我们的分类系统，通过对20本书的语料分析，寻找少年漫画（男孩漫画）和少女漫画（女孩漫画）在视觉形态上存在差异的初步证据。我们的研究结果发现，这些图形模式大多在两种漫画类型中都反复出现，从而为存在一种贯穿不同类型的更广泛的日本视觉语言这一观点提供了支持。然而，我们发现每种类型中特定模式的使用比例不同，这意味着在这个更广泛的系统内，每种类型都构成了自己的“方言”。（C）2015爱思唯尔有限公司。版权所有。
The visual representations of non-iconic elements in comics of the world often take diverse and interesting forms, such as how characters in Japanese manga get bloody noses when lustful or have bubbles grow out their noses when they sleep. We argue that these graphic schemas belong to a larger "visual vocabulary" of a "Japanese Visual Language" used in the visual narratives from Japan. Our study first described and categorized 73 conventionalized graphic schemas in Japanese manga, and we then used our classification system to seek preliminary evidence for differences in visual morphology between the genres of shonen manga (boys' comics) and shojo manga (girls' comics) through a corpus analysis of 20 books. Our results find that most of these graphic schemas recur in both genres of manga, and thereby provide support for the idea that there is a larger Japanese Visual Language that pervades across genres. However, we found different proportions of usage for particular schemas within each genre, which implies that each genre constitutes their own "dialect" within this broader system. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.