Semiotics: Important Way for Improving College Students’ Abilities of Images Reading and Critical Thinking

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10.2991/assehr.k.210121.039How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Symbol, Saussure, Pearce

Abstract

In the context of visual culture, it is an important way for college students to master semiotic knowledge to improve their images-reading abilities and cultivate critical thinking. Image interpretation can draw lessons from Saussure’s three pairs of symbolic concepts -- signifier and signified, combination and aggregation, diachronic and synchronic, recognize the narrative structure of image texts, deeply recognize the logic of image production, and rationally carry out visual text criticism. Pierce’s sign triad method--Icon, index, and symbol are used, to excavate the energy value and emotional tension of images, critically recognize the deep meanings of image texts, and identify the connotation of images based on cultural contexts.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Baolei Yang
AU  - Guo Zhao
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/23
TI  - Semiotics: Important Way for Improving College Students’ Abilities of Images Reading and Critical Thinking
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 190
EP  - 193
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210121.039
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210121.039
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