Re: Visual and text languages

2011-03-10 Thread John Zabroski
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Alan Blackwell wrote: > > > Of course, 'real' > > linguists have their terms and analyses for these things, which are > > probably more useful. > > Jon Oberlander once wrote a nice paper 'Grice for Graphics' > (1996), in which he elaborated the ways that secondary n

Re: Visual and text languages

2011-03-10 Thread John Zabroski
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:51 AM, John Daughtry wrote: > > There is a lot of scattered research on visual languages... some more > directly studying visual languages than others. Some extant work is about > visual languages when the researcher doesn't even realize it (a colleagues > work on visual

Re: Visual and text languages

2011-03-10 Thread Derek M Jones
All, There is a lot of scattered research on visual languages... some more The best book I know of on visual language is: Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto: