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What Roles Might Linguistic Arbitrariness Play In Krazy Kat?, Frank Bramlett
What Roles Might Linguistic Arbitrariness Play In Krazy Kat?, Frank Bramlett
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Welcome to the third post in the Pencil Panel Page roundtable on George Herriman’s Krazy Kat. We are glad to have found a new home here at Hooded Utilitarian, and as Adrielle said in her inaugural post, you should dive into our archives here.
Since there has been some concern expressed on the Hooded Utilitarian site about the state of linguistic analysis, I wish to start my post on Krazy Kat with a note about the linguistic analysis of comics in general. As a linguist, I am most interested in the way that linguistic codes function …