Wittgenstein’s Bridge

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_4995
dc.title	Wittgenstein’s Bridge. A Linguistic Account of Visual Representation
dc.contributor.author	Biggs Michael
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/the-journal-for-the-philosophy-of-language-mind-an/2021/1/wittgensteins-bridge/
dc.description.abstract	This paper uses structure-mapping to bridge the divide between the analytical and visual culture traditions of image interpretation. Wittgenstein’s analytic ‘picture theory of meaning’ from his early period, and his cultural theory of ‘meaning as use’ from his later period are used to show that the terms similarity, analogy and metaphor can be applied to both image and linguistic interpretation. As a result, by the mapping of similarity and analogy onto the analytic approach, and by the mapping of metaphor onto the visual culture approach, a common linguistic ground for the comparison of these two approaches to image interpretation can be established.
dc.relation.ispartof	JoLMA
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 2 \| Issue 1 \| June 2021
dc.issued	2021-06-30
dc.dateAccepted	2021-04-26
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-02-10
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2723-9640
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2021/01/010
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Analogy
dc.subject	Analogy
dc.subject	Description
dc.subject	Description
dc.subject	Explanation
dc.subject	Explanation
dc.subject	Mapping
dc.subject	Mapping
dc.subject	Meaning
dc.subject	Meaning
dc.subject	Metaphor
dc.subject	Metaphor
dc.subject	Projection
dc.subject	Projection
dc.subject	Representation
dc.subject	Representation
dc.subject	Similarity
dc.subject	Similarity
dc.subject	Structure
dc.subject	Structure

Research Article
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A Linguistic Account of Visual Representation

Michael Biggs University of Hertfordshire, UK

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abstract

This paper uses structure-mapping to bridge the divide between the analytical and visual culture traditions of image interpretation. Wittgenstein’s analytic ‘picture theory of meaning’ from his early period, and his cultural theory of ‘meaning as use’ from his later period are used to show that the terms similarity, analogy and metaphor can be applied to both image and linguistic interpretation. As a result, by the mapping of similarity and analogy onto the analytic approach, and by the mapping of metaphor onto the visual culture approach, a common linguistic ground for the comparison of these two approaches to image interpretation can be established.

Published

June 30, 2021

Accepted

April 26, 2021

Submitted

Feb. 10, 2021

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Keywords: Structure • Explanation • Description • Meaning • Mapping • Projection • Representation • Analogy • Similarity • Metaphor

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