Open AccessWord and Image: Intermedial Aspects
Author(s) -
Winfried Nöth
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
medienpädagogik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1424-3636
DOI - 10.21240/mpaed/00/2001.08.06.x
Subject(s) - modalities , word (group theory) , nonverbal communication , sign (mathematics) , linguistics , image (mathematics) , psychology , sign language , visual communication , mental image , communication , cognitive psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , cognition , mathematics , multimedia , sociology , philosophy , neuroscience , mathematical analysis , social science
The concepts of ‘word’ and ‘image’ are not synonymous with ‘verbal’ and ‘visual communication’ although they are often restricted to these modalities of sign use. Words and images are cross-medially related, and here are many overlaps. By ‘words’ I mean language, verbal texts or discourse, more generally: verbal communication. By ‘images’ I mean pictures and more generally visual communication, not mental images nor verbal images.