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This collection of essays is a book for anybody who wants to know more about how language and comics go together. It begins to construct a space in which the scientific and literary study of language may productively combine with the burgeoning scholarship in comics.
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Bramlett, F. (2012). Introduction. In: Bramlett, F. (eds) Linguistics and the Study of Comics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137004109_1
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