The translator of texts from the tourist sector must bear in mind the heterogeneity and interdisciplinary nature of the language of tourism (Calvi, 2006), which requires action beyond the purely linguistic. In order to create some kind of motivation which drives the consumer-tourist to act in a certain way, it is necessary to pre-process the percei...
The question of homoerotic sensibility is, in the purpose of this thesis, a matter of visual language connected to the portrayal of male bodies. By identifying this sensibility throughout the western art canon the essay seeks to understand its origins, development and function in relation to expressions of power. With the introduction of theorists ...
L’article étudie la manière dont la ville se rend visible et analysable à travers ses pratiques interstitielles, voire à travers les actions quotidiennes des habitants ainsi que par les services fournis par des institutions diverses. Nous prenons comme objet d’analyse le projet On Broadway dans lequel Lev Manovich et trois artistes visualisent les ...
Denna uppsats behandlar frågorna om hur och varför ett typsnitt kan förmedla ett visst intryck, en känsla eller tonalitet på en webbsidas rubriker. Samt betydelsen av, som designer eller annan yrkesverksam inom området, att ha kännedom och medvetenhet kring typsnitt. Vi valde en kvalitav metod utifrån våra frågeställningar. Genom intervjuer och en ...
Published in Semiotica
Today, the convergence of video-based Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs) is challenging centralized control over cultural topologies. Accordingly, this paper proposes a theoretical prism for the analysis of the sociopolitical impact of online audio-visual communication. More precisely, this study discusses how topological visibility (i.e. c...
Published in Semiotica
In this article we explore the relationship between semiotic analysis of images and quantitative analysis of vast image corpora, in particular the work produced by Lev Manovich and the Cultural Analytics Lab, called “Media Visualization.” Media Visualization has been chosen as corpus because of its metavisual operation (images are visualized and an...
Published in Cognitive Semiotics
The aim of this article is to present a hypothesis explaining the origin of plastic meaning. In visual semiotics, plastic meaning is that produced by visual configurations per se, i.e. independently from what they represent. This meaning can be assimilated to the kind of effects studied by (Arnheim, R. 1954/1974. Art and visual perception: A psycho...
This essay aims to analyse how the exposedness is constructed in the Swedish contemporary artist Nathalie Djurberg’s two stop motion-films Greed and Cave. Five stills from Greed and three stills from Cave will be examined from a feminist perspective with a theoretical viewpoint based on theories from both art history and film studies. The method ap...
Published in Semiotica
There exist visual signs that have stood their ground throughout the ages for the simple reason that they fit the bill. They are evident or evidently true representations. The bill they fit are life, sentience, and sapience. Which is saying that it comes down to instinctive recognition, i.e., unexplainable, but unmistakably evident. They are true b...
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The evaluation of visual aspects of law has had a profound influence in the last decade in specific fields of legal sciences (i. e., criminology, studies of legal evidence), focusing on the extent to which visual evidence (visual patterns, images, diagrams, and symbols) underpin what and how we can perceive different types of legal evidence, and ho...
