Give Me a Sign
Semiotics is a method of analyzing communication through how we make meaning and engage with each other, specifically how we make and take meaning from signs and symbols. Visual semiotics is the study of the visual ways that we make meaning (Bezemer & Jewitt). The theory of social semiotics was developed by linguist Michael Halliday, and his research was focused on language, and the theory was later expanded to include a component of visual communication or visual semiotics (Jewitt and Henriksen). Within the methodology, there are three categories of images: Icon: an image that resembles the visual cue it is attempting to reference, like an icon of a phone on a webpage indicates that you choose this option to call. Index -a recognizable image that we know the meaning of but that does not represent the action or object physically. For example, a small square means to stop music from playing on our phone, or two lines next to each other means to pause, these images don’t have any r
