Semiotics of Images - The Analysis of Pictorial Texts

This book represents a unique collaborative effort to bring together the multiple aspects of the semiotics of images into a coherent approach based on Greimasian and post-Greimasian theory. Starting with a critical discussion of epistemological and theoretical issues and continuing with methodology and numerous examples of applied analysis, it aims to provide the educated reader with a consistent and unified theoretical framework for the semiotic study of visual cultural texts. It offers a comprehensive overview of the semiotics of static images such as painting, drawing, sculpture and photography, but also dynamic images such as cinema, animation and digital games. Readers will benefit from the special emphasis placed on the analysis of the pictorial signifier, visual syntax and the structuring of the semantic universe.

About the author

Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos, Prof. Emeritus, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou, Prof. Emeritus, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Maria Giulia Dondero, University of Liège, Belgium; Jacques Fontanille, Prof. Emeritus, University of Limoges, France; Maria Katsaridou, Ionian University of Corfu, Greece; Rea Walldén, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Product details

• Authors: Kari Boklund-Lagopoulou, Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou, Maria Giulia Dondero, Jacques Fontanille, Maria Ilia Katsaridou, Alexandros Ph Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos, Rea Walldén
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2024
• EAN: 9783110991840
• ISBN: 978-3-11-099184-0
• No. of pages: 437
• Weight: 768 g
• Illustrations: 50 b/w and 31 col. ill., 8 b/w tbl.
• Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Kulturwissenschaften, Linguistics, Digital Games, Semiotics / semiology, General studies, Bildsemiotik, Pictorial Semiotics, Greimasian, Animation Studies and Digital Games, Semiotics of Cinema, Visual Semiotics, Animation Studies, Greimasian and Post-Greimasian Semiotics