Speaking in Pictures

Name: Speaking in Pictures
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ISBN: 9781350402164

A Vision of Language

Dr Neil Cohn (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)

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Bloomsbury Academic
02 April 2026

Psycholinguistics; Graphic novels: true stories & non-fiction; Communication studies

Pictures are a fundamental aspect of how we express ourselves, and cave paintings are among our oldest records of intelligence. Yet, despite their importance, why don’t most people feel they can draw, and why are pictures often considered less important than language?

For over 20 years, Neil Cohn has pioneered research around these questions within the fields of linguistics and cognitive neuroscience, and this book is the result, heralding a new paradigm of language, drawing, and communication, all accessibly presented as a non-fiction graphic novel. This work challenges the conventional understandings of how pictures communicate, how people learn to draw, and the nature of language itself.

With humor and a clear, friendly, and accessible tone, Speaking in Pictures introduces ground-breaking research by doing what it discusses: intertwining pictures and words into a single message as a non-fiction graphic novel, taking the reader on an inspiring journey through the study of communication and the mind.

By: Dr Neil Cohn (Tilburg University The Netherlands)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 188mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 717g
ISBN: 9781350402164
ISBN 10: 1350402168
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 02 April 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Neil Cohn is Associate Professor of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is the author of The Visual Language of Comics (2013), Who Understands Comics? (2020), and editor of The Visual Narrative Reader (2016).