People use various semiotic resources to make meaning. Among semiotic modes, language has been co... more People use various semiotic resources to make meaning. Among semiotic modes, language has been considered as the dominant mode of communication; however, visuals offer broad range of potentials and resources for meaning making. In order to have full understanding of meaning, readers need to enlighten themselves with new different ways to interpret visual images. The guiding impetus for this paper is to present Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) framework of interpretive strategies to analyze and comprehend the visuals as a significant mode of non verbal communication, in order to extend the readers’ interpretive techniques and enhance their ability in constructing and interpreting images. The notion of Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) takes up different visual representations, ranging from children's drawings, school textbooks, traditional art works, photos and advertisements for the analysis of sign systems from a syntactical prespective. The power of their work lies in the fact that t...
People use various semiotic resources to make meaning. Among semiotic modes, language has been co... more People use various semiotic resources to make meaning. Among semiotic modes, language has been considered as the dominant mode of communication; however, visuals offer broad range of potentials and resources for meaning making. In order to have full understanding of meaning, readers need to enlighten themselves with new different ways to interpret visual images. The guiding impetus for this paper is to present Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) framework of interpretive strategies to analyze and comprehend the visuals as a significant mode of non verbal communication, in order to extend the readers’ interpretive techniques and enhance their ability in constructing and interpreting images. The notion of Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) takes up different visual representations, ranging from children's drawings, school textbooks, traditional art works, photos and advertisements for the analysis of sign systems from a syntactical prespective. The power of their work lies in the fact that t...
Uploads
Papers