Unspoken Words in Comic Books’ Dialogues. Comparative Analysis with Cinema
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The aim of this paper is to know the extent of comics’ conversational interactions, concerning unspoken words in particular. From micro-readings of Peggy Adam serialised graphic novel Plus ou moins…, we wish to analyse the effect how some manifestations affect comics dialogue by leading progressively from unintentional silence to communicative refusal: psychological troubles, shared background, conversational taboos, or self-preservation draw an outline of the field of the unspoken, which is often more informative than uttered speech. At the same time, we take a contrastive look at analogies and divergences about implicit between film dialogue and comics dialogue.
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