THE SUBJECT IN DIALOGUE: A VISUAL SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE
THE SUBJECT IN DIALOGUE: A VISUAL SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: What does it mean to communicate with visual messages and to convey ideas with the help of images? Is the visual sign capable of substituting the subject when he or she is not present? Can it be relied upon in communication? Can it happen that a gap be-tween the subject’s visual image and identity becomes an insurmountable barrier on the way to understanding? This paper attempts to discover visuality as a weighty addition to the spoken word, to reconsider its role in communication so that it is treated not as a deceptive simulacrum but a representation of the subject in dialogical space, an em-bodiment of an eternal pure impulse, an aspiration to unfold oneself in front of the other.

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