LING 3344

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LING 3344
Superlinguistics: Comics, Signs and Other Sequential Images

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Super-linguistics is a subfield of linguistics that applies techniques used for analyzing natural language to non-linguistic materials. This course uses linguistic tools from semantics, pragmatics and syntax to study sequential images found in comics, films, and children's books. We will also study multimedia, gestures, and static images such as instruction signs, emoji, and paintings. Linguistic topics include anaphora, implicature, tense and aspect, attitudes and embedding, indirect discourse, and dynamic semantics. We introduce linguistic accounts of each of the topics and apply them to pictorial data.


Prerequisites LING 1101 or permission of instructor.

Distribution Requirements (KCM-AG), (ETM-AS)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2022SP

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8705 LING 3344   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Abusch, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person