In the Beginning was the Image: The Omnipresence of Pictures

The authors of the 6th volume of the series Visual Learning outline the topic of visuality in the 21st century in a trans- and interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy.

The authors outline the topic of visuality in the 21st century in a trans- and interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy. As some scholars of visual communication state, there is a significant link between the downgrading of visual sense making and a dominantly linguistic view of cognition. According to the concept of linguistic turn, everything has its meaning because we attribute meaning to it through language. Our entire world is set in language, and language is the model of human activities. This volume questions the approach in the imagery debate.

Autorentext

András Benedek is Professor and Head at the Department of Technical Education, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has published several papers on human resource development issues. Ágnes Veszelszki is Senior Assistant in Hungarian Linguistics at the Corvinus University of Budapest. Her research interests are focused on the impact of infocommunication technology on the (Hungarian) language.

Klappentext

The authors outline the topic of visuality in the 21st century in a trans- and interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy. As some scholars of visual communication state, there is a significant link between the downgrading of visual sense making and a dominantly linguistic view of cognition. According to the concept of linguistic turn, everything has its meaning because we attribute meaning to it through language. Our entire world is set in language, and language is the model of human activities. This volume questions the approach in the imagery debate.

Inhalt

Contents: Ágnes Veszelszki: Preface Kristóf Nyíri: Towards a Theory of Common-Sense Realism Sybille Krämer: Truth in Testimony: Or can a documentary film 'bear witness'? Some reflections on the difference between discursive and existential truth Valeria Giardino: Space and Action to Reason: from Gesture to Mathematics Daniel L. Golden: Visual management of time Javier E. Carreño: Husserl on the Right Timing of Depictions Petra Aczél: Rediscovering the Visual in Rhetorical Tradition: Persuasion as Visionary in Suasory Discourse Timothy Barney: The Rhetorical Lives of (Cold War) Maps Orsolya Tünde Endrdy-Nagy: Paintings and Illuminated Manuscripts as Sources of the History of Childhood: Conceptions of Childhood in the Renaissance Krisztina Szabó: Digital and Visual Literacy: The Role of Visuality in Contemporary Online Reading Gergely Havasmezi: Images in the Hungarian Online News Trischa Goodnow: The Selfie Moment: The Rhetorical Implications of Digital Self Portraiture for Culture James E. Katz and Elizabeth Thomas Crocker: Selfies as interpersonal communication Ágnes Veszelszki: #time, #truth, #tradition. An image-text relationship on Instagram: photo and hashtag Matthew Crippen: Dewey on Arts, Sciences and Greek Philosophy András Benedek: SysBook as a Visual