13th Conference of the IAVS-AISV

Visual Semiotics & Agency / Sémiotique visuelle et

agentivité / Semiótica visual & agencia

September 28-30, 2023

Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá (Colombia)

Call for Papers

In their seminal work, Traité du signe visuel (1992), Groupe μ asks the fundamental question whether visuality as such is a Hjelmslevean form, that is, whether it is pertinent to the nature of meaning conveyed. Once you abandon the autonomy postulate of structuralism, taking into account the psychology and phenomenology of perception, as suggested by Sonesson already in 1989, and now more widely accepted within cognitive semiotics, it becomes obvious that all phenomena offered to (human) perception by way of the visual sense must share numerous properties, in spite of differing in other respects. Whether or not this human kind of visuality also shares properties with visually conveyed experience of other animals is a further issue for investigation.

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