The semiotics of visual perception and the autonomy of pictorial text
Toward a semiotic pedagogy of the image
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8856503 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Pericles Trifonas (OISE/UT, CTL, Toronto, ON, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 696-705 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00131857.2020.1761329 |
| OpenAlex | W3023283374 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
How does a picture teach a viewer to look at it, understand it, and make meaning? (The theoretical basis of this article and elements of its expression have been drawn from Peter Pericles Trifonas. (1998). “Cross-mediality and narrative textual form: A semiotic snalysis of the lexical and visual signs and codes of the picture bnook.” Semiotica, 118 (1/2): 1–70 and Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2015). “Texts and images.” In International handbook of semiotics, Vols. 1&2, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. The Netherlands: Springer. Pp. 1139–1154.) The suggestion for a pictorial grammar has been derived from the fact that pictures have no unique visual metalanguage and therefore require recourse to language as an instrument for pictorial analysis. The lexical-visual relationship in a text is more complex than is suggested in the question. Proponents for the semiotic autonomy of pictures have objected that the commentaries of crossmedial contexts have not asserted the semiotic priority of the lexical over the visual message. ‘Is an autonomous semiotics of visual perception possible, or does the semiotic analysis of pictorial text always require recourse to the model of language?’
Epistemology · Grammar · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Metalanguage · Narrative · Perception · Representation (politics · Semiosis · Semiotics · Semiotics of culture · Visual language · Visual semiotics · Philosophy · Umberto Eco and Semiotics · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |