照片符号的述真问题

On the Veridiction of Photo Signs

从符号学和传播学角度研究照片与现实的关系。照片本质上属于像似符号,但使用者可以把它用作指示符号,指示某些具体事物的在场。照片还可以向规约符号转化。照片符号的作者和读者赋予它解释项,从而使照片符号具有规约意义。在不同的语境下,经过不同使用者的解读,照片有可能会获得不同的解释项,成为不同的符号。与其他符号一样,照片符号也可以被用来说谎。照片的述真是一个交际过程,此过程中发送者的意图意义、照片的文本意义和接收者的解释意义以不同的形式呈现,形成了几种固定的述真模式。

This paper studies the relationship between photos and reality from the perspective of semiotics.Photos belong to icons,but their users can use them as indexes to indicate the presence of certain specific things.Photos can also be transformed into symbols.The authors and readers of photos can give the same or different interpretants,thus photos become symbols.Like other signs,photo signs can be used to lie.The veridiction of a picture is a communication process.The intention meaning of the sender,the text meaning of photo and the interpretive meaning of the receiver are presented in different forms to form several fixed modes of veridiction.