Abstract The Visual Language Research Corpus (VLRC) is a dataset of annotations of 376
stories from comics from the United States, northwestern Europe, and East Asia, along with …

Effective data literacy instruction requires that learners move beyond understanding
statistics to being able to humanize data through a contextual understanding of …

Inference has long been acknowledged as a key aspect of comprehending narratives of all
kinds, be they verbal discourse or visual narratives like comics and films. While both …

To understand narratives, comprehenders need to establish to what extent various
expressions refer to the same entity, known as co-reference. Research in linguistics has …

Page layout is one of the most salient features of graphic novels and comics that readers
encounter: even before engaging with specific content, an overall impression of the page …

Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides
students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics …

Comics are a global phenomenon, and yet it's easy to distinguish the visual styles of comics
from Asia, Europe, or the United States. But, do the structures of these visual narratives differ …

La secuencialidad se puede explicar brevemente como una forma de transmitir significado
que sucede cuando una obra está segmentada en pequeñas unidades. La teoría sobre la …

The ability to reconstruct a missing event to create a coherent interpretation–bridging
inference–is central to understanding both real-world events and visual narratives like …

Visual narratives, like comics, at times show depictions of characters' imagination, dreams,
or flashbacks, which seem incongruent with the ongoing primary narrative. Such “domain …