Visual Rhetoric and Semiotics
As shown in the works of the Groupe ยต, visual rhetoric is closely related to the study of semiotics. Semiotic theory seeks to describe the rhetorical significance of sign-making. Visual rhetoric is a broader study, covering all the visual ways humans try to communicate, outside academic policing.
Roland Barthes, in his essay "The Rhetoric of the Image" also examines the semiotic nature of images, and the ways that images function to communicate specific messages.
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