I chose the comic topic from two different genres. One is from UCSB library, the scholarly academic publications,and the other is from common comic genre generator. The scholar article is about the academic study of comic. The same topic in those completely different genres have different rhetoric features.
Firstly and obviously is that the comic generator is more about making the audience laugh with cynical words and exaggerated facial expression of characters; on the contrary, the academic publication more tends to research the type of genre--comic. It aims to discuss the definition of comic and the components that make up of it. In this case, the scholar article is not funny at all. To some extent, it is not that easy to understand compared to comic books. This different purpose of these two genres is the reason why the audience of these two genres are completely different. In the comic genre generator, the jokes created to everyone who like jokes. They are mostly teenagers, but some adults also read them for relaxing. In the scholar article, the essay is provided for discussion among academic scholars, most are linguistic or language professors. This is because the author of this article aims to delve the comic genre as a study in linguistic area.
Although they are both about comic topics, the different purpose and audience make them have different conventions also. In scholar article, it has more academic words about linguistic like “Bande Dessinee” that are complicated to understand, even though they have notation of them. In comic generator, on contrast, it has less words than pictures. Some words are even used to describe a movement instead of having real meaning. This is also because that the aim of comic generator is to relaxing the audience, and hence the less words will make it better. Also, the scholar article is provided to linguistic professors, which in turn makes it have more academic words in that area. It is not designed easy for understanding for the general audience.
In scholar article, the author use references to make his paper more believable and authoritative. These references are also from some scholarly publications like New York Study Museum. Rference is an essential convention in scholar article because it shows that the author did a bunch of academic research of the topic and, therefore, makes an convinced conclusion with accurate evidence. In comic generator, it has no restrict rule that says the author must tell the origin of that jokes. The jokes can be the sarcasm of political events nowadays, or it can be some mimicry of some popular celebrities’ funny laughs. In this case, all it matters in comic generator is to get the laughing effects.
The context of those two genres are also different from each other. In the scholar article, the author uses plenty of resources from other scholar publications to help him develop his idea of comic genre. In his paper, he discussed the definition of comic through the whole paper based his research own analysis and other different disciplines. In the comic generator, there is no specific background behind that jokes. The joke means nothing in real world. It just the moment that make people laugh and then people will forget it. It is created out of inspiration perhaps. It is not created to memorize some special event or has other feature that makes it valuable for long-time study. In this case, jokes from comic generator tend to be consumed by the audience; the scholar article from academic publication has the value to study, discuss among the specific audience.
Hello Yue Yue,
ReplyDeleteI really like how you tackled these two very different genres! You made very good points on both the topics, specifically on how they are unique. This did have some grammatical errors and was a bit difficult to read to due the way it was formatted. Other than it, it was very good!
Best,
David