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Introduction 1. The Semiotic Landscape 2. Narrative Representations: Designing Social Action 3. Conceptual Representations: Designing Social Constructs 4. Representation and Interaction: Designing the Position of the Viewer 5. Morality: Designing Models of Reality 6. The Meaning of Composition 7. The Materiality of Meaning - Surface and Inscription 8. The Third Dimension

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Materiality (auditing)SemioticsNarrativeMeaning (existential)LinguisticsGrammarRepresentation (politics)Reading (process)AestheticsAction (physics)Computer scienceCognitive scienceCommunicationSociologyPsychologyArtEpistemologyPhilosophyPolitics

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Year
1996
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Volume
34
Issue
04
Pages
34-1950
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8767
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Gunther R. Kress, Theo van Leeuwen (1996). Reading images: the grammar of visual design. Choice Reviews Online , 34 (04) , 34-1950. https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.34-1950

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10.5860/choice.34-1950