Xiran Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3920459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiran Yang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiran |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2798-8392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Visualized kinesic humor in silent comic strips
Unexpected movements, represented verbally or nonverbally, can give rise to cognitive shifts that function as incongruities leading to kinesic humor. The visual narrative form of silent comic strips relies on depiction of movements in humorous storytelling, and echoes the sensorimotor nature of kinesic humor. The current study adopts a cognitive-pragmatic perspective to study visualized kinesic humor in silent comic strips. Based on a holistic un…
The visual expression of temporal concepts in visual narratives
This study examines the visual representation of diegetic time in visual narrative stories, and explores why the invisible diegetic time flow could be expressed through visible elements, and how patterns and textures could be used to specify states of happenings. The study demonstrates that metaphorical relations between time and space are visually realized in visual narratives, leading to the representation of diegetic time and its related conce…
The pragmatics of text-emoji co-occurrences on Chinese social media
This paper explores the pragmatics of emojis co-occurring with or embedded in text on Chinese social media with this central research question: what are the patterns and the communicative functions manifested by emojis in co-occurrence with Chinese text? Building on the metafunctional approach of multimodal analysis, popular online posts from Sina Weibo which contain both emoji(s) and text have been collected and analyzed to discover the represen…
To be continued: Meaning-Making in Serialized Manga as Functional-Multimodal Narrative
This paper discusses meaning-making in serialized adventure manga (Japanese comics) by examining its metafunctional organization. Manga, whose components cover a multimodal cline from graphics to verbals, is seen as a multimodal narrative whose features are mapped onto the different metafunctions: time - experiential, with diegetic time lapse defining the start point to construe experience; cause-effect - logical, with relative positioning of com…
To be continued: Meaning-Making in Serialized Manga as Functional-Multimodal Narrative
This paper discusses meaning-making in serialized adventure manga (Japanese comics) by examining its metafunctional organization. Manga, whose components cover a multimodal cline from graphics to verbals, is seen as a multimodal narrative whose features are mapped onto the different metafunctions: time - experiential, with diegetic time lapse defining the start point to construe experience; cause-effect - logical, with relative positioning of com…
To be continued: Meaning-Making in Serialized Manga as Functional-Multimodal Narrative
This paper discusses meaning-making in serialized adventure manga (Japanese comics) by examining its metafunctional organization. Manga, whose components cover a multimodal cline from graphics to verbals, is seen as a multimodal narrative whose features are mapped onto the different metafunctions: time - experiential, with diegetic time lapse defining the start point to construe experience; cause-effect - logical, with relative positioning of com…
The pragmatics of text-emoji co-occurrences on Chinese social media
This paper explores the pragmatics of emojis co-occurring with or embedded in text on Chinese social media with this central research question: what are the patterns and the communicative functions manifested by emojis in co-occurrence with Chinese text? Building on the metafunctional approach of multimodal analysis, popular online posts from Sina Weibo which contain both emoji(s) and text have been collected and analyzed to discover the represen…
The visual expression of temporal concepts in visual narratives
This study examines the visual representation of diegetic time in visual narrative stories, and explores why the invisible diegetic time flow could be expressed through visible elements, and how patterns and textures could be used to specify states of happenings. The study demonstrates that metaphorical relations between time and space are visually realized in visual narratives, leading to the representation of diegetic time and its related conce…
Visualized kinesic humor in silent comic strips
Unexpected movements, represented verbally or nonverbally, can give rise to cognitive shifts that function as incongruities leading to kinesic humor. The visual narrative form of silent comic strips relies on depiction of movements in humorous storytelling, and echoes the sensorimotor nature of kinesic humor. The current study adopts a cognitive-pragmatic perspective to study visualized kinesic humor in silent comic strips. Based on a holistic un…
Computer Science (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Comics (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Adventure (1 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (1 works)