Personal Pronouns and Gendered Speech in Popular Manga (Japanese Comics)

Text-Independent Speech Balloon Segmentation for Comics and Manga

The Diffusion of Foreign Cultural Products: The Case Analysis of Japanese Comics (Manga) Market in the US

This paper outlines the historical development of the US manga (Japanese comics) industry from the 1980s through the present in order to address the question why foreign cultural products become popular in offshore markets in spite of cultural difference. This paper focuses on local publishers as “gatekeepers” in the introduction of foreign culture. Using complete data on manga titles published...

Japanese Visual Language The Structure of Manga

Over the past two decades, manga has exploded in readership beyond Japan, and its style has captured the interest of young artists all over. But, what exactly are the properties of this "style" beyond the surface of big eyes and "backward" reading? This paper explores the structural elements of the Japanese Visual Language (JVL) that comprises the "manga style" — ranging from looking at the “bi...

Framing attention in American and Japanese comics

Research has shown that Americans focus more on focal objects of a scene while East Asians attend to the surrounding environment (Nisbett, 2003; Nisbett & Miyamoto, 2005). The panels of comic books—the sequential frames of images— highlight aspects of a scene comparably to how attention focuses on parts of a spatial array. Thus, comparison of American and Japanese comics can inform cross-cultur...

personal pronouns in iranian languages and dialects

the study of internal structure and functions of pronouns across languages can be useful for typological, theoretical as well as descriptive studies. personal pronouns in iranian languages and dialects have been investigated in the present study. the study has indicated that the pronouns are in clitic as well as free morphemes. the study also indicated that the languages and dialects benefit fr...