The objective of this article is to analyze and interpret a series of semiotic-discursive interventions that have occurred in the seat of the Chilean government, the Palace of La Moneda...
Keywords: semio-discursive operations, trauma, signs, symbolic violence, icon, symbol
02/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThe literal application of the notion of ‘metaphor’ to the iconic system of signification and communication requires, first, to release the theory of verbal metaphor from its linguistic bias and, second, to propose a theory capable of explaining adequately both verbal and iconic metaphor...
Keywords: icon, image, imprinting, mediation (of language), ellipsis and iconic metaphor
08/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter