Text and images

Abstract

This chapter examines how the meaning-expressive potential of the lexical and pictorial forms of signification are defined. To this end, semiotics provides theoretical and methodological framework for isolating and explaining the levels of meaning, both of language as text and the image as pictorial text. By no means exhaustive, the chapter highlights some of the main philosophical and theoretical implications concerning semiotics, language, meaning-making, and pictorial text toward the development of a viable semiotic methodology for analyzing pictorial text.