Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Renewing Drivers License In Pa With A Warrant

Rhetoric Reader Model Image


For this session we were assigned a reading of Umberto Eco : Model Reader. In this regard, several points were discussed: we start talking about two types of texts : closed and open. The first is aimed at a target rate, someone in particular. It has a very specific focus and stimulate something. Valuation has semiotics, historical analysis and cultural bias. There is nothing more open than a closed text. In relation to open texts, as its name suggests, are open to free interpretation. Sets a limit on the cooperation vigilacia has the reader. In itself, a text you want someone to help him work.

also commented on the perception aesthetic that we apply when reading text is the first that comes, the first link between the text and reader. The role of the latter need to update a string of expressive devices. The text has no such elements, thanks to this is that the reader participates. Also, any text or message postulates a grammatical competence by the recipient, there are certain texts for readers with some knowledge or experience. Thus the reader's interpretation can become infinite.

In turn, the text foresees the reader in some respects. Competition does not always match the recipient of the issuer, to decode a message you need a diversified language proficiency and circumstantial. That's why to create a text requires a prior knowledge of possible interpretations and skills of our reader, ie a model reader able to participate in the update text. There is a choice of language, encyclopedia, lexicon and stylistic level.

The interpretation is always a estrategiadel dialectic between author and reader response model. Besides practice, Eco says that aesthetics can be a free and deliberate use of the word "certain novels become more beautiful when someone tells them, because they become 'other' novels."

The issuer and recipient of a text is present not as poles of the act of enunciation, but as actantial roles of the statement. In these cases, the author says verbatim somo as a recognizable style, a pure role as aparción inlocutoria actantial. Author and Reader Model estrtegia construed as types of texts.

The empirical author a hypothesis Reader Model s owever, the empirical reader (real player that makes reading) must also constructed a hypothetical data Author deducting the textual strategy.

Finally, we talk about textual cooperation, which must be understood as the updating of the intent that the statement contains virtually. textual cooperation is a phenomenon that takes place between two discursive strategies, not between individual subjects. This type of cooperation concerns the ability to link strategies to the text at least polysemic possible. There are several levels to interpret the text: to identify what it is, give permission, take a code interpretation.

This reading was particularly complicated in some respects. However, I think that is an important contribution to our way of seeing the issue raised. Perhaps we have become very common to believe that our readers find our message correctly, however, as designers of information must be aware of the difficulty that occurs in the reading process.

Eco, Umberto. Model Reader. Barcelona: Editorial Lumen , 2000.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Fashion On A Model And On A Normal Person




This time I had to explain to me. I will make a brief review of the writings of Roland Barthes in Rhetoric image with alugunas of slides I presented.


To begin, we talk about the concept of image . This word, according to the ancient etymology is connected with the root imitate, ie, an analog representation ("copy"). On this point, linguists are outside the language will communicate based on analogy. They are not the only ones wary of the linguistic nature of the image, also the common opinion, and that this analogy is considered a limited sense: some think that the image is a very rudimentary compared to the language and others think significance is not able to exhaust the ineffable richness of the image. In this reading, Barthes will talk specifically about the advertising image , as exemplified by the following brand image Panzani (p. 29-30).


mentions that the image provides three messages: Message
  1. iconic language message
  2. coded iconic message
  3. uncoded
is easier to separate the linguistic message to the others, but the distinction between the other two , since both have the same substance (iconic), is not done spontaneously in normal lectra: image viewer receives both the literal message and cultural message. The first message is iconic in a way, printed on the second, the post holder literal message appears as "symbolic" (p. 34-35).


On the other hand, regrasando the linguistic message, it features dual message about the icons are: a function of anchor and one relay.




"Never is a literal image in its purest form (at least in advertising)" (p. 38).





Barthes, Roland. Rhetoric of the Image . Obvious and Obtuse. Paidos Ibérica, 1986.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Cute Sayins That Go With Butterflies

A semiotic approach to design communication


For this session we made Hanno Ehses reading : A semiotic approach to communication design:

Communication, sign and design

H. Ehses tells us that communication is described as an object of conveying information between people, to inform, notify and clarify. To do this effectively, individuals must share common signs, ie, a set of specific social cues. It describes the work field as a processor designer, both signs as a reinforcer in the message. Semiotics



communication between two or more people is always a situation of signs, and base it consists of a hand in the sign itself and on the other side of the sign for a transport. For Peirce's definition of sign is a triple relationship depends on three variables: interpreter, mediator and object.

Morris creates three basic components of sign: Syntactic

- Problems of representation (mediator). Process of performance or production of the sign.

Pierce syntactic classification gives the following signs:

  • Qualisign: The quality material, the visible appearance of the sign.
  • Sinsign: A visible sign defined in time and space.
  • Legisign: Represents a sign that looks the same in different representations according to certain rules.
signs that change over time are called dynamic signs. Those who depend on space and do not change over time are static. The design works mainly the latter. Semantic

- Discusses the relationship between the mediator and the object, under the meaning of representation. Your problem to address is the content, which should be designed.

Peirce's division for this is:
  • Index: A sign that actually carries a causal or direct relationship to the object.
  • Icon: A sign that imitates or displays the object and showing at least one attribute in common with him.
  • Symbol: A sign that does not show the object is independent, but it represents arbitrarily.

Signs pictorial features such as the symbols belong to the group of icons, while the letters and ideograms, belong to the symbols. Pragmatic

- The use of signs with a purpose and effect of representation. It refers to the intent, purpose and use of signs.

Peirce divides signs Rhema, Dicent and Plot.
  • Rhema: Sign with qualitative possibilities, without meaning or purpose, not false or true.
  • Dicent: current sign, real. Is true or false.
  • Topic: sign under a law, only real.
signs should arouse interest in the receptors so that they participate in the communicative act.

In any form of action, whether good or bad, there is a social value system, ie, social sanctions or public opinion, so
pragmatics is responsible for the psychological and sociological evaluation of the signs for proper implementation.

On the other hand, the design has different functions situations: the informational, aesthetic, economic and technical. Together determine the purpose of representation with drawings and letters, the aim being truthful communication of information.

Finally, the author tells us that for the areas of design, development and realization of the representation of information should be clearly organized, understandable, meaningful and appropriate. Communication design is about visual design of the information that must be met for effective communication along the way where it is applied photography, graphics and typography, which considers aspects of information, aesthetic, economic and technical functions.


Ehses, Hanno. A Semiotic Approach to Communication Design. The Canadian Journal of Research in Semiotics, Vol IV No. 3, 1977.