Search results for "visual semiotics"

Peirce and Greimas from the Viewpoint of Musical Semiotics: An Outline for a Comparative Semiotics

1982

In semiotics it has become more and more evident that the dream of a unified semiotical science is an unreachable ideal. In this situation of extreme heterogeneity it is also legitimate to ask what kind of unifying metatheories one might develop in general semiotics, as well as in its special branches, like that of musical semiotics.

The rebirth of an image : transformation in the construction of meaning in painting : a case study of Diego Velázquez' and Francis Bacon's papal por…

2006

Interpretation of journalistic photographs as an instrument of visual literacy education

2016

Images are produced, used and distributed on an enormous scale. However, the skills of understanding, interpreting and using images as well as thinking and learning in terms of images are taken for granted, and thus, they are not sufficiently taught and developed, especially in higher education. The need for introducing visual literacy into the curriculum was identified in late 1960s, but no concrete guidelines have followed. This study proposes to apply interpretation of journalistic photographs as an instrument of visual literacy education. The main focus is on the image interpretation process and the kinds of meanings viewers apply to a photograph in the interpretation process. In each o…