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Words and images can harmonize to clarify meaning in a variety of texts. This interdisciplinary work presents practitioners, researchers, creative artists, and teachers discussing how we process and develop meaning from words and images. This study is especially important for writers and designers working in electronic communication environments, where the marriage of words and images challenges traditional training. Ranging from theory to practice, chapters examine both cognitive issues and aesthetic concerns. This book explores topics such as:^L^DBLHuman processing of images and text^DBLThe roles of written language in project development in the arts^DBLUses of images and visual thinking by writers^DBLHow the ways in which words and images convey meaning can be both different and complementary^LProfessionals, teachers, and students will be understand more effective uses of text and visual displays, and today's writer or designer will learn to clarify complex ideas by controlling the intersections of words and images.

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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-101567506097

ISBN-139781567506099

eBay Product ID (ePID)2205631

Product Key Features

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameWorking with Words and Images : New Steps in an Old Dance

Publication Year2002

SubjectCommunication Studies, Study & Teaching, General, Rhetoric, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPsychology, Business & Economics, Language Arts & Disciplines

AuthorNancy Allen

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15.9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2001-053833

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Allen offers an overview of the history of interrelationships between words and images, including the challenge of developing meaning from words and images in photographs, film, and computers. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." Choice

Target AudienceCollege Audience

Number of Volumes1 Vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal808/.042/0285

Lc Classification NumberPe1404

Table of ContentIntroduction: Relationships between Words and Images: A Brief Overview by Nancy Allen From Media to Meaning: Perception, Interpretation, and Learning The Indexical Hypothesis: Meaning from Language, World, and Image by Arthur M. Glenberg The Ransom Note Fallacy and Acquisition of Typographic Emphasis by James Kalmbach Some Ways That Graphics Communicate by Barbara Tversky Being Visual, Visual Beings by Richard Johnson-Sheehan Image, Word, and Future Text: Visual and Verbal Thinking in Writing Instruction by Ronald Fortune Mixing Media in the Arts and Professions: Design and Performance Telling Our Stories in Pictures: Case History of a Photo Essay by Nancy Allen Astronomical Rhetoric: 19th-Century Photographs as Models of Meaning by Gregory Wickliff Two-Dimensional Features in Text: How Print Technology Has Preserved Linearity by Barry Pegg The Concrete Word: Text and Image in the Theater by Lisa Brock The Way of the Sorcerer: Etiology of Two Images from a Lost Graphic Novel by Heinz Insu Fenkl and Mike Dringenberg Visual and Verbal Features in Electronic Spaces: New Visions for Transformed Contexts The Digital Design Revolution by Jonathan Allen and Greg Simmons Articulating (Re)Visions of the Web: Exploring Links among Corporate and Academic Web Sites by Amy Kimme Hea Reading PowerPoint by Rich Gold Mixing Oil and Water: Writing, Design, and the New Technology by Neil Kleinman Afterword: Experiments with Image and Word Exercises and Experiments for the Workbench by Neil Kleinman