Unaccompanied punctuation marks in comics

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https://doi.org/10.11606/2316-9877.2023.v11e213371

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Punctuation marks, Comics, Multimodality

Abstract

Question mark, exclamation mark, and ellipses are punctuation marks that can occur solo in comics (either in speech balloons, thought bubbles, or anchored to the image). Our main corpus is formed by the comic strips of Yehuda Moon & the Kickstand Cyclery because we noticed a constant use of these unaccompanied punctuation marks. As a contrast, we turn to The essential Calvin and Hobbes (1988) by Bill Watterson and God 1, 2 and 3 by Laerte. Comparing these corpora, we will perceive punctual preferences. Cohn (2013) conceives these unaccompanied signs as upfixes (affixes), which we discuss based on the formalization of punctuation marks by Dahlet (2002; 2006) and Kleppa (2023) and Gedin's conception of multimodality in comics (2019).

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Author Biography

  • Lou-Ann Kleppa, Universidade Federal de Rondônia

    Professora de Linguística na Universidade Federal de Rondônia (UNIR) e requisitada pelo Ministério dos Povos Indígenas, onde atua como assessora técnica no Departamento de Línguas e Memórias Indígenas. Graduada em Letras-Linguística pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP) e mestre e doutora em Linguística pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp).

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2023-11-08

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Kleppa, L.-A. (2023). Unaccompanied punctuation marks in comics. 9 Arte (São Paulo), 11, e213371. https://doi.org/10.11606/2316-9877.2023.v11e213371