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Speaking in Pictures
A Vision of Language
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Pictures are a fundamental aspect of how we express ourselves, and cave paintings are among our oldest records of intelligence. Yet, despite their importance, why don’t most people feel they can draw, and why are pictures often considered less important than language? For over 20 years,...
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See moreBy showing that the way we speak, draw, and gesture all share common cognitive organizing principles, this book heralds a new paradigm of language, drawing, and communication, all accessibly presented as a non-fiction graphic novel.
By showing that the way we speak, draw, and gesture all share common cognitive organizing principles, this book heralds a new paradigm of language, drawing, and communication, all accessibly presented as a non-fiction graphic novel.
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Pictures are a fundamental aspect of how we express ourselves, and cave paintings are among our oldest records of intelligence. Yet, despite their importance, why don’t most people feel they can draw, and why are pictures often considered less important than language?
For over 20 years, Neil Cohn has pioneered research around these questions within the fields of linguistics and cognitive neuroscience, and this book is the result, heralding a new paradigm of language, drawing, and communication, all accessibly presented as a non-fiction graphic novel. This work challenges the conventional understandings of how pictures communicate, how people learn to draw, and the nature of language itself.
With humour and a clear, friendly, and accessible tone, Speaking in Pictures introduces ground-breaking research by doing what it discusses: intertwining pictures and words into a single message as a non-fiction graphic novel, taking the reader on an inspiring journey through the study of communication and the mind.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350402164
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 February 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 188.0mm
Height: 244.0mm
Weight: 717g
Pages: 328
About the Author
Neil Cohn is Associate Professor of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is the author of The Visual Language of Comics (2013), Who Understands Comics? (2020), and editor of The Visual Narrative Reader (2016).
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