The processing and development of meaning from words and images are discussed in this interdisciplinary work.
Introduction: 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
NANCY ALLEN is Associate Professor of Written Communication in the English Department at Eastern Michigan University. She teaches courses in professional communication, rhetoric, research methods, and computers and writing. She has published in such journals as Technical Communication Quarterly, Computers and Composition, IEEE, Journal of Computer Documentation, and Journal of Business and Technical Communication and in books on technical communication. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Computers and Composition.
"An important step in our efforts to theorize, teach, and
understand communication as both a verbal and visual activity.
Nancy Allen assembles a richly varied, challenging, and useful cast
of contributors, working from multiple perspectives to help map
out, in both active and reflective ways, this crucial terrain. A
useful resource for teachers and students in technical
communication, computers and composition, or any field interested
in both theoretical and applied views of communication."-Johndan
Johnson-Eilola Clarkson University
"This book fills a huge gap in the literature on professional
communication. We have many books on images and many books on
writing, but few that deal with the historical, theoretical, and
practical issues connected with the relationship of words and
images. Professor Allen and the other contributors to this
volume--all of them either established leaders or bright new
prospects in the interdisciplinary study of integrated text
design--handle the topic with grace, thoroughness, insight, and
lucidity. The book offers an excellent starting point for teachers
and practitioners of professional communication, especially those
who struggle with the problem of how to harness the power of
electronic text and image processing in creating finely integrated
print documents as well as web pages and other hypertexts."-M.
Jimmie Killingsworth Professor of English, Texas A&M
University
"Writing teachers need to understand writing as more than merely
words. The crucial starting point for developing a multimedia
notion of writing is a better conceptual grasp of the relationship
between words and images--and Nancy Allen's book provides just such
a focus. The essays in this volume explore a wide range of ways
that words and images 'collaborate'. Rather than simply rounding up
the usual suspects in one field or another, Allen reaches out to
scholars, writers, and designers in a variety of professions and
academic fields. The result is an interdisciplinary set of voices
from areas such as photography, creative writing, linguistics,
theater, digital production, media studies, literary criticism, and
rhetoric writing. Allen's collection does an excellent job of
calling attention to this rich and important area of study."-James
E. Porter Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, Michigan State
University
?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
"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
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