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Pattee, Cynthia A. "Effects of alternative communication on the communicative effectiveness of an individual with a progressive language disorder /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2003. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1414461.
Повний текст джерелаKing, James G. "Brain communication server a dynamic data transferal system for a parallel brain simulator /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2005. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1433391.
Повний текст джерелаLawanda, Ike Iswary. "The role of LIS professionals in Indonesian book publishing: Its dynamics and growth in the case of Islamic translation books since 1998." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106413.
Повний текст джерелаChow, Ching-lan. "Integrating information communication technology in teaching and learning through interactive multimedia books." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39848693.
Повний текст джерелаChow, Ching-lan, and 周靜蘭. "Integrating information communication technology in teaching and learning through interactive multimedia books." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39848693.
Повний текст джерелаHarijaona, Jean Jules. "Analyse de situations de communication difficile en milieu didactique malgachophone." Villeneuve d'Asq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2001. http://books.google.com/books?id=MkpiAAAAMAAJ.
Повний текст джерелаSadokierski, Zoe. "Visual writing : a critique of graphic devices in hybrid novels from a visual communication design perpsective /." Electronic version, 2009. http://utsescholarship.lib.uts.edu.au/iresearch/scholarly-works/handle/2100/1042.
Повний текст джерелаSurendera, Babu Aruna. "Food safety communication in Nevada needs assessment /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2006. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1433410.
Повний текст джерелаSmith, Gregory S. "Impact of rule accuracy on productivity and communication in an organizational analog." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1453611.
Повний текст джерелаShinqīṭī, Sayyid Muḥammad Sādātī. "Waẓīfat al-ikhbār fī Sūrat al-Anʻām". al-Riyāḍ : Dār Ishbīlyā, Markaz al-Dirāsāt wa-al-Iʻlām, 1997. http://books.google.com/books?id=f97jAAAAMAAJ.
Повний текст джерелаAhern, Sara E. "Transparency in Assessment through Web-Based Communication: A Study of Changes in Communication About Assessment and Teachers' Perceptions of Assessment and Student Motivation for Learning." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/630.
Повний текст джерелаPublic and private schools are adopting new technological software to manage student information in a web-based format. These programs have the capability to provide students and parents with on-line access to grades and higher quality assessment information with the hope that students take information about their grades and use it formatively to improve in the classroom. Teachers, however, have historically kept their grade books private and increasing transparency into grading represents a major change in teachers' communication of student achievement. This qualitative case study examines the impact of increasing transparency in assessment by providing parents and students access to web-based grading information on teachers' perceptions of the quality and effectiveness of communication with parents and students, teachers' perceptions of student motivation, teachers' application of the program, and teachers' perceptions of their communication with each other. Seven teachers participated in this research study over the course of one semester at a large, suburban New England high school. The data from this study showed that increasing transparency in assessment to students and parents resulted in changes in the nature and substance of communication between teachers, parents and students. Teachers reported changing their use of the program over the course of the semester in order to provide greater clarity of assessment data to students and parents and, as a result, students were able to use it formatively to improve student learning. Teachers reported that the greatest impact of this program was in improved communication with students leading to increased student effort and a sense of student ownership over grades. Teachers also felt that increasing transparency in assessment influenced communication and collaboration among teachers. The findings of this research study provide implications for educational practice, policy, future research and leadership
Thesis (EdD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Educational Administration
Harris, Mitchell T. "Analysis of semiconductor optical amplifiers in VCSEL based wavelength division multiplexing communication /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1446799.
Повний текст джерела"May, 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-83). Online version available on the World Wide Web. Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2007]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
Dixon, Jean Elizabeth. "Who took that photo? : a content analysis of front page online newspaper photographs /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1461528.
Повний текст джерела"December, 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-46). Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2009]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Online version available on the World Wide Web.
Yust, Christine. "Communication strategies of successful coaches : a content analysis of books by coaches about coaching /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/8697.
Повний текст джерелаSchwarz, Christiane. "Studien zur Stammbuchpraxis der Frühen Neuzeit Gestaltung und Nutzung des Album amicorum am Beispiel eines Hofbeamten und Dichters, eines Politikers und eines Goldschmieds, etwa 1550 bis 1650 /." Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 2002. http://books.google.com/books?id=2iFZAAAAMAAJ.
Повний текст джерелаBottando, Evelyn. "Hedging the commons : google books, libraries, and open access to knowledge." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3265.
Повний текст джерелаLeach, Karen Dupree. "Aggression in Popular Children's Picture Books: A Content Analysis." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4102.
Повний текст джерелаIḥmīdah, Muḥammad. "al-Kitābah al-iṣlāḥīyah bi-al-Maghrib khilāl al-qarn al-tāsiʻ ʻashar, qaḍāyāhā wa-khaṣāʼiṣuhā al-fannīyah". [Rabat] : Muḥammad Iḥmīdah, 2002. http://books.google.com/books?id=blhiAAAAMAAJ.
Повний текст джерелаHobson, Paula Lee. "Integrated marketing communications at community colleges." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1453583.
Повний текст джерелаKutz, Steven E. "Sensemaking for followers in leadership transition what's going on here /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1453594.
Повний текст джерелаWoolf, Deanna M. "Generic U:Comparing Photographic Images in High- and Low-Ranked University View Books." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1270154201.
Повний текст джерелаNugent, Susie P. "Infant cross-fostered chimpanzees develop indexical pointing." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2006. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1433288.
Повний текст джерелаLaksmi. "The development of library and information science through books published in Indonesia, 1952-2005." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106479.
Повний текст джерелаThe aim of this study is to analyze the development of library and information science through its publications written by librarians, scholars, and others who are interest to the field in Indonesia since 1952 to 2005. The book publication is limited to the scientific books that contain the knowledge of the library and information science. The analysis is focused on the kind of books, the subjects, the publication, the originality of books, and the writers. The study uses the content analysis approach that is named as bolometric study. This knowledge is needed as references to develop the science and to create more literatures with the various, innovative, and constructive ideas in the future. This version of the paper contains an appendix with a list of book titles that was omitted from the version published in the conference proceedings.
Miller, Samuel. "History in the Making: The Impact of Ideology in Lynne Cheney's Children's Books." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/62.
Повний текст джерелаDanowski, Jesica L. "The Portrayal of Older Characters in Popular Children's Books: A Content Analysis from 2000 to 2010." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2469.
Повний текст джерелаSousa, Eunice Maria da Silva. "Strategies for the science communication of biodiversity." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/16500.
Повний текст джерелаThe present work aimed to contribute to understand the public perception of biodiversity, to find patterns of biodiversity representation in communication pathways and to promote strategies to modify stereotypes towards biodiversity, creating a more aware and active public through environmental education and citizen science projects. Four studies were developed under the following subjects: 1) understanding young adults preferences about animals, 2) comprehend how biodiversity is portrayed in children’s books from the Portuguese National Reading Plan, 3) evaluating the impact of an environmental education project on the public awareness of ponds and associated biodiversity, and 4) understanding the potential of a Citizen Science approach to map ponds in the Portuguese territory. The results from the various studies showed a limited and distorted public view and awareness about living beings. This was found to agree with the biodiversity portray patterns in children´s trade books, which seem to constitute important sources of information about biodiversity during childhood. The present work also described the implementation and evaluation of a resourceful environmental education strategy that was able to change the public attitudes towards ponds and associated biodiversity, especially the amphibians. Finally, it also showed that the implementation of a Citizen Science action was able to engage citizens in pond conservation actions and create the first map of ponds in Portugal through the use of Volunteer Geographic Information mechanisms. The work used innovative methodologies of data analysis and project impact evaluation that can be useful to future research in science communication.
O presente estudo teve como objectivos contribuir para a compreensão da percepção pública da biodiversidade, encontrar padrões da representação da biodiversidade nos meios de comunicação e promover estratégias para modificar estereótipos acerca da biodiversidade através da utilização da educação ambiental e de projetos de ciência cidadã, criando um publico mais consciente e ativo. Foram desenvolvidos quatro estudos sobre os seguintes assuntos: 1) compreender as preferências dos adolescentes acerca dos animais, 2) perceber como a biodiversidade é retratada nos livros para crianças do Plano Nacional de Leitura, 3) avaliar o impacto de um projeto de educação ambiental dedicado à sensibilização do público sobre os charcos e a biodiversidade associada, e 4) compreender o potencial de uma ação de ciência cidadã no mapeamento de charcos no território português. Os resultados dos vários estudos mostram uma visão limitada e distorcida acerca dos seres vivos por parte do público. Este aspecto está de acordo com o retrato da biodiversidade nos livros para crianças, que parecem constituir uma importante fonte de informação sobre a biodiversidade durante a infância. Este trabalho também descreve a implementação e avaliação de uma produtiva estratégia de educação ambiental que foi capaz de modificar as atitudes do público para com os charcos e a sua biodiversidade, sobretudo em relação aos anfíbios. Finalmente, o presente trabalho também demonstrou que a implementação de uma ação de ciência cidadã foi capaz de envolver os cidadãos em ações de conservação de charcos e criar o primeiro mapa de charcos em Portugal através da utilização de mecanismos de Informação Geográfica Voluntária. O presente trabalho utilizou metodologia inovadora para análise de dados e avaliação de impacto de projetos que podem ser úteis para o futuro da investigação em comunicação de ciência.
Bratanek, Laura A. "Case Study of E-book Use in an Academic Library: A Communication Perspective." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23914.
Повний текст джерелаWillet, Holly. "Effects of treatment on finite morphemes in children with specific language impairment /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2001. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1404975.
Повний текст джерелаOakes, David M. "The crisis communication strategies of the three major professional sports leagues a comparative historical analysis /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2006. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1433295.
Повний текст джерелаBossuyt, Liv, and Märta Wolter. "A study in design of covers for self help books concerning depression." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Medie- och Informationsteknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-130016.
Повний текст джерелаHoliday, Steven John. "Where They Least Expect It: Product Placement in Children's Picture Books." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4434.
Повний текст джерелаDhawi, Fahad A. "Redesigning Arabic learning books : an exploration of the role of graphic communication and typography as visual pedagogic tools in Arabic-Latin bilingual design." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2017. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/13472/.
Повний текст джерелаAyala, Zapata Fernando C. "Arquitectura, ciencia-ficción y comic-books : vanguardias, evolución y lenguaje." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669551.
Повний текст джерелаThis thesis proposes as topic of research the hypothetic triad formed by Architecture, Science-fiction and the Comic-books. The intention is multidisciplinary, researching inner relationships and demonstrating the potential within the whole trinomial scenario, as a method of understands the current fluctuations in the architectural practice. At the same time, the study was focused to develop and apply transversal skills directed towards the others components of the triad, providing i.e., useful concepts from architecture to science fiction and/or to comic-books. All the relationships founded are dynamic within the triad, and can be grouped into two types, defined in this thesis as "elastic" or "plastic" ones, in a metaphoric but methodological analogy of the two types of collision in physics. “Elastic” actions grouped individual manifestations, developed as internal problem from each disciplines of the triad, with little -or zero- impact on counterparties used as a reference. These cases, with theoretical and pedagogical utilities, were the most frequently examples found in this research, and presented as potential interdisciplinary backgrounds of experimentation. “Plastic” actions grouped binomial and/or trinomial manifestations that containing fusion intentions. Those examples are few, especially when looking from architecture and then focus to the other(s) component(s) of the triad. The opposite case often happens; i.e., throughout history, directors of science fiction films -and also many comics artist- have used buildings, architectural spaces or a fragmented architectural concepts as an important component of his works. The methodologies was developed along nine study cases, divided into two classes: those that develop specific disciplinary knowledge (about specifically science fiction or comic books, out of architectural traditional background), and those in which at least a binomial relationship between concepts exists (architecture vs. science fiction, or architecture vs. comic books, or even comic books vs. science fiction). The first type of relationships refers researches about comics and science fiction as disciplines, focused on its artistic form, philosophy, styles, techniques and tools. These researches were indispensable for the development of the rest of cases, especially those leads to find new links with the architectural project. The second type of relationships have been investigated to generate a complete discourse, both analytical and documentary, based on hybrid between the components of the triad, but understanding the potential of the relationships -binomial or trinomialestablished, and focused with broader perspectives (multidisciplinary ones) from the architectural field. The conclusions reinforce the principal hypothesis; most of the hybrid manifestations found from architectural discipline and related to comic-books and/or science-fiction, generally come from professionals, sectors, groups or movements that rather than trying to build something “real”, use the projection tools as a means to convey theories and concepts, or simply communicate their own "architectural messages", using hybrid languages that derived from the multidisciplinary characteristics of the trinomial. The huge potential in this thesis refers to the alternative visions about concept of innovation and creativity resulting from any “merging condition” between artistic disciplines, potential which been objectified from architecture is measurable and feasible, with processes that involve thinking and the practical level of future implementation. These actions would achieve its best benefits working as "toolboxes", new alternatives for communicating architectural languages
Bornedal, Kajsa. "Language of the Book : Volume I–III Investigations of the conceptual and bodily experience of reading and making books." Thesis, Konstfack, Institutionen för design, inredningsarkitektur och visuell kommunikation (DIV), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7991.
Повний текст джерелаProjektet Bokens språk Volume I-III utforskar den konceptuella och kroppsliga upplevelsen av att läsa och göra böcker. Uppsatsen presenterar utvecklingen av Volume I: Narrakub som består av tre prototyper för berättande. Narrakub är ett format som utvecklats för att undersöka hur konstruktionen av boken kan bjuda in berättelser bortom enstaka röster, linjär tid och låsta perspektiv. Narrakub belyser den aktiva rollen som ett medium har då det sänder ett meddelande. En bok är aldrig en neutral behållare för bläck utan bär på ett aktivt kommunikationsutrymme i sin konstruktion oavsett innehåll.
Mosebach, Jessica I. "A content analysis of gender differences in newspaper book reviews." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1446453.
Повний текст джерелаMenezes, Maria Helena Pinto Morais Sarmento de. "ICT in modern languages : a study of the effects multimedia books have on developing reading skills among Portuguese young learners of EFL (English as a foreign language)." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312438.
Повний текст джерелаHales, Audra Marie. "Using Systematic and Engaging Early Literacy Instruction and Digital Books to Teach At-Risk Kindergarteners to Read Target Words." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3468.
Повний текст джерелаHong, Laura. "Twitter and the comic book fan community: Building identities and relationships in 140 characters." Scholarly Commons, 2015. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/201.
Повний текст джерелаHasham, Zisham. "Effects of a Parent Instructional Program on the Communicative Turns of African American Children who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication during Book Reading Activities." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/432.
Повний текст джерелаBachelors
Health and Public Affairs
Communicative Disorders
Cederberg, Ann. "Stil och strategi i riksdagsretoriken : en undersökning av debattspråkets utveckling i den svenska tvåkammarriksdagen (1867-1970) /." [Uppsala] : Institutionen för nordiska språk vid Uppsala universitet, 1993. http://books.google.com/books?id=ki5cAAAAMAAJ.
Повний текст джерелаPoletti, Elena Maria. "Children's Books: From Shelves to Streets. Children's publishing as a tool for social change in the Italian 'anti-gender' scenario." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21772.
Повний текст джерелаLüdtke, Solveig. "Globalisierung und Lokalisierung von Rapmusik am Beispiel amerikanischer und deutscher Raptexte." Berlin ; Münster : Lit, 2007. http://books.google.com/books?id=4J-fAAAAMAAJ.
Повний текст джерелаWu, Gang. "Images of China and the United States in each other's newspapers a visual content analysis of three Chinese and three U.S. newspapers /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2006. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1438940.
Повний текст джерелаBorrero, Brittni M. "Faded Glory: Captain America and the Wilted American Dream." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334586489.
Повний текст джерелаLucas, Justin. "Beneath the cape and cowl: Batman and the revitalization of comic book films." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1244074493.
Повний текст джерелаJohansson, Jonathan, and Jonna Jönsson. "Stiliga figurer i pannkakssmeten : En retorisk analys av visuella stilfigureri Sven Nordqvists barnböcker." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-58868.
Повний текст джерелаDorfling, Aletta. "Betekenis in narratiewe illustrasie : 'n dissonante samewerking tussen woord en beeld /." Link to the Internet, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/2703.
Повний текст джерелаWeed, Amanda J. "Don't Be a Zombie: Bringing Persuasion to Life through Fictional Narratives." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1385993180.
Повний текст джерелаBallenger, Eric E. "Composition and the comics solution." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1337187.
Повний текст джерелаDepartment of English
Ferreira, Rikus. "'n Ondersoek na en dekonstruksie van die taal (beeld en teks) vervat in die visuele narratief met spesiale verwysing na die komiekstripmedium." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52963.
Повний текст джерелаENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is concerned with a study of the two basic elements of communication, namely image and text. How these basic communication tools function in the genre of the visual narrative with regard to their roles in the comic strip and the artist's book, will be examined. Both genres, the comic book and the artist's book, consist of complex structures regarding their workings in the framework of the visual narrative, and this work explores these complexities by analysing how image and text function in the visual narrative. The area of semiotics is used as a basis on which the arguments in this thesis are built. The principles contained in semiotics act as useful guidelines in the reading and understanding of communication in general, but in this study these principles give focus and structure to the research of especially the comic strip and the artist's book. Concepts that are discussed in depth include the interesting interactions which occur between image and text when they are used together. Signs, icons, symbols and how they function with (or without) text, are also examined. Text can also function as image, and this visualisation of text is explored. The role of concepts like interpretation, perception, the study of images and image-association, are all very important in the visual communicator's eventual success with his/her communication. How these concepts influence the creation and forming of one's visual intelligence and visual literacy, and the eventual effect it has on the process of communication, make up a very important part of this study. These arguments lead to a discussion of the dynamics contained in the visual narrative when looked at from a semiotic perspective. Central to the discussion on the visual narrative in this thesis, is the differentiation between two similar genres: 1) Firstly, a discussion of the functioning of the comic strip medium. Important aspects of this subject are the interactions of image and text, and how the comic medium consists of a unique set of symbols, which influence the specific communication in this genre. 2) Secondly, the genre of the artist's book, and how the medium of the book functions as a unique phenomenon in communication. The systems of meaning contained in the medium of the book are looked at against the light of a semiotic analysis of text and image. This research supports the importance of a semiotic approach as a helpful aid in the interpretation of any piece of communication, but especially that of the comic strip medium and the artist's book. The theories of Charles Peirce, Ferdinand de Saussure, Roman Jakobson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Umberto Eco are used as basis of the arguments in this thesis and serve as valuable ground for a useful discourse. The implementation of above mentioned theories lead to an indication of the complexities involved in the special visual language of the comic strip and the artist's book.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie is gemoeid met 'n ondersoek na die twee basismiddele of "taal" van kommunikasie, naamlik beeld en teks. Hoe hierdie basiese kommunikasiegereedskap funksioneer in die visuele narratief, met verwysing na veral die komiekstrip en die kunstenaarsboek, word ondersoek. Beide van laasgenoemde genres beskik oor komplekse strukture in hul bestaan binne die raamwerk van die visuele narratief, en hierdie navorsing ondersoek hierdie kompleksiteite deur die funksionering van beeld en teks in die visuele narratief te ontleed. Die area van semiotiek word as basis gebruik waarop die argumente in die tesis gebaseer is. Die beginsels vervat in die rigting van semiotiek tree op as 'n handige hulpmiddel in die lees en verstaan van enige vorm van kommunikasie, maar in hierdie studie verleen dit veral fokus en struktuur aan die navorsing binne die raamwerk van die komiekstrip en kunstenaarsboek. Konsepte wat in diepte bespreek word met die oog op hul uiteindelike funksionering binne die visuele narratief, sluit die interessante interaksies wat ontstaan tussen beeld en teks wanneer hulle saam gebruik word, in. Konsepte soos tekens, ikone en simbole, asook hul werking saam met teks (en afsonderlik daarvan), word bespreek. Teks kan in werklikheid ook as visuele beeld funksioneer, en hierdie "ikonifisering" of "beeldwording" van teks word ondersoek. Die rol van konsepte soos interpretasie, persepsie, beeldherkenning en assosiasie, wat uit hierdie proses van visuele kommunikasie voortspruit, is baie belangrik in die visuele kommunikeerder se uiteindelike sukses met sy/haar poging tot kommunikasie. Hoe hierdie konsepte aanleiding gee tot die skep van 'n persoon se "visuele intelligensie" en "visuele geletterdheid", en die uiteindelike effek wat dit op die proses van kommunikasie het, maak 'n belangrike deel van hierdie navorsing uit. Hierdie konsepte lei tot 'n bespreking van die dinamika van die visuele narratief wanneer daar vanuit 'n semiotiese oogpunt daarna gekyk word. Sentraal tot die bespreking van die visuele narratief in hierdie tesis, kan daar tussen twee ooreenkomstige genres onderskei word: 1) Eerstens is daar 'n bespreking van die funksionering van die komiekstripmedium. Belangrike aspekte van hierdie onderwerp is die funksionering van en interaksies tussen beeld en teks binne die medium, en hoe die stripmedium bestaan uit 'n unieke stel simbole wat die kommunikasie van die werk beïnvloed. 2) Tweedens die genre van die kunstenaarsboek, en hoe die boek as unieke medium funksioneer, word bespreek en ontleed. Die sisteme van betekenis vervat in die visuele narratief betrokke in die boekmedium, word beskou teen die lig van 'n semiotiese ondersoek na die interaksies van die basismiddele beeld en teks. Hierdie navorsing steun die belangrikheid van semiotiek as hulpmiddel in die interpretasie van enige stuk kommunikasie, maar veral in die stripmedium en die kunstenaarsboek. Die studie maak veral gebruik van die teorieë van Charles Peirce, Ferdinand de Saussure, Roman Jakobson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty en Umberto Eco. Die toepassing van bogenoemde teorieë in hierdie studie, lei tot 'n aanduiding van die kompleksiteite vervat in die spesiale "visuele taal" van veral die komiekstrip en die kunstenaarsboek.