Cognitive scientists have argued that such images are  much like text contributions in the way their interpretation connects to the broader discourse.
inferences analogous to those used to interpret text seem to be necessary with such images to recognize their spatio-temporal perspective (Cumming et al., 2017), the objects they depict (Abusch, 2013), and their place in the arc of narrative progression (McCloud, 1993;Cohn, 2013).