Show me your logo – city logos as a visual plane Cover Image

Pokaż mi swoje logo – logo miast jako płaszczyzna wizualna
Show me your logo – city logos as a visual plane

Author(s): Magdalena Makowska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: text linguistics; text-picture relation; multimodal text

Summary/Abstract: Public space more and more often makes use of multimodal texts, combining in themboth linguistic and graphic-picture elements. The present article constitutes an attemptat a linguistic analysis of multimodal texts described on the example of city logos. Theeconomization of perception as well as the willingness to present a given city in a way thatis attractive for the recipient cause that this kind of text that a logo is, evolves continually.Simultaneously, logo still remains a whole which is coherent in functional and semantic termsand that, in turn, entitles it to be treated in terms of a semiotically arranged visual plane.

  • Issue Year: 1/2014
  • Issue No: XVI
  • Page Range: 87-97
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish